Hi; This was a bug that was recently fixed in gtk+:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671817 The fix will be in the next stable release of gtk+. A workaround is to create the .local/share directory: mkdir -p .local/share Ciao, Emmanuele. On Friday, 20 July 2012, David Buchan wrote: > Background info: My program uses a file chooser dialog. I compiled it for > the first time today on a 64-bit machine with Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with > gtk-3-dev. My program is run as root. I've been using it extensively on > 32-bit machine with libtgtk2.0-dev and Ubuntu 10.04 with no errors. > > When I use the file chooser dialog, the following three errors appear on > stdout: > > (myprogram:2755): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into > `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file > '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.PLPWHW': No such file or directory > > (myprogram:2755): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of > `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or > directory > > (myprogram:2755): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into > `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file > '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.5R5GHW': No such file or directory > > (myprogram:2755): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of > `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or > directory > > > Any ideas? A google search comes up completely dry (!! when did that > happen last? weird) as does a Yahoo search. Dead end, it would seem. I'm > certainly not at all keen to muck around in /root/. > > > Can this have something to do with running as root? It didn't throw errors > for 32-bit with libgtk2.0-dev. > > Dave > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org <javascript:;> > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > -- W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
