Ok, I think this problem occurred during the last gnome update. When cfg-update
kicks off meld it dies with the error below. Running meld as a user works fine,
running say xterm as root works fine but running meld as root fails. Anyone
know what's wrong? I googled the error but didn't come up with anything useful.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/meld", line 90, in <module>
meldapp.main()
File "//usr/lib64/meld/meldapp.py", line 982, in main
app = MeldApp()
File "//usr/lib64/meld/meldapp.py", line 562, in __init__
self.prefs = MeldPreferences()
File "//usr/lib64/meld/meldapp.py", line 435, in __init__
super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
File "//usr/lib64/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://www.gnome.org/projects/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.)
