Re: [Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-08 Thread Aviv
Let me be more accurate here. Gnome-terminal works fine, *ONLY* root terminal fails (gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator fails to execute). Hence, GConf may be error-free in this case. Quoting Alwin Roosen : > I have the same problem after upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty. > > I don't know of this i

Re: [Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-05-08 Thread Aviv
Let me be more accurate here. Gnome-terminal works fine, *ONLY* root terminal fails (gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator fails to execute). Hence, GConf may be error-free in this case. Quoting Maxim Levitsky : > Thus I still thing gnome-terminal should work without gconf > > -- > Cannot start gnome

Re: [Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-04-29 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:44 +, bjd wrote: > Been following these comments -- all the while finding myself more and more > dumbfounded. This bug is over two months old. More and more bugs lately seem to befall this fate sadly, of just lingering on and on and nothing being done. > There's anoth

Re: [Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew
I do not see how commenting that out is a good idea if that comment is correct. Instead, it appears to me to be a bug in the gconf_ping_daemon. If the gnome-terminal can run just fine under sudo, then the gconf_ping_daemon should be using the actual user ID, not the effective user ID to try to get

Re: [Bug 328575] Re: Cannot start gnome-terminal because of gconf error

2009-04-29 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 13:39 +, Pibo wrote: > @ Adam Yao: > could you please be more specific? Are you meaning that you've found some > applications other than the root terminal which undergo this GConf's issue, > or that the fact the terminal is unusable affects other activities of yours? >