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Hello gentoo-dev,
I'm working on an app for GSoC that needs to show a diff of two files
to the user. Right now I've just been calling meld from the python
os.system call. I tried running my application as root to show diffs
of system files that belong to root. I got this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/meld", line 90, in <module>
meldapp.main()
File "/usr/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 982, in main
app = MeldApp()
File "/usr/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 562, in __init__
self.prefs = MeldPreferences()
File "/usr/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 435, in __init__
super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
File "/usr/lib/meld/prefs.py", line 92, in __init__
self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
glib.GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible
causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you
have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See
http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1:
Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible
causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the
message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout
expired, or the network connection was broken.)
I haven't looked into why this is happening very much because calling
os.system("meld file1 file2 &") in python is putting up so many red
flags in my head it's not funny. If anybody could tell me the proper
gentoo/linux/python way to present a root level diff to a user running
a program through su or sudo I'd really appreciate the help.
thanks,
Chris
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