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________________________________ From: Emmanuele Bassi <eba...@gmail.com> To: David Buchan <pdbuc...@yahoo.com> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list list <gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org> Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2012 7:43 AM Subject: Re: Unusual GTK error message 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 >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
