Hi Following today's F16 updates I have following problem 99% certain this did not happen before the updates Login to the console as fred Create a konsole window [fred@naxos ~]$ xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host [fred@naxos ~]$ su - ja Password: ja@naxos ~ 1$ export DISPLAY=:0.0 ja@naxos ~ 2$ gedit prob.txt ** (gedit:4544): CRITICAL **: unable to create '/run/user/fred/dconf'; dconf will not work properly. ja@naxos ~ 3$ Editing is possible but ja preferences are not honoured Why is gedit trying to create a file in fred's directory? [root@naxos ~]# ls -l /run/user/ total 0 drwx------. 4 fred fred 80 Nov 11 11:29 fred drwx------. 2 root root 40 Nov 11 12:00 root I'm asking if anyone else has seen this problem before I submit a bugzilla against gconf2 I assume Fully updated F16 Using KDM and XFCE (not GDM or Gnome) [root@naxos ~]# yum info gconf* Installed Packages Name : GConf2 Arch : x86_64 Version : 3.2.3 Release : 1.fc16 Size : 6.2 M Repo : installed >From repo : local-16-update Summary : A process-transparent configuration system URL : http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ License : LGPLv2+ Description : GConf is a process-transparent configuration database API used to : store user preferences. It has pluggable backends and features to : support workgroup administration. [root@naxos ~]# yum info dconf Installed Packages Name : dconf Arch : x86_64 Version : 0.10.0 Release : 1.fc16 Size : 210 k Repo : installed >From repo : anaconda-0 Summary : A configuration system URL : http://live.gnome.org/dconf License : LGPLv2+ Description : dconf is a low-level configuration system. Its main purpose is to provide a : backend to the GSettings API in GLib. The following work fine as work arounds but should not be necessary ---------------------- [fred@naxos ~]$ ssh -Y ja@naxos ja@naxos's password: ja@naxos hints_info 5$ gedit prob.txt ---------------------- ja@naxos ~ 2$ nedit prob.txt ---------------------- John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
