Bug 749819

Summary: [abrt] meld-1.5.2-1.fc15: prefs.py:94:__init__:GError: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Burhan Ali <burhan.ali>
Component: meldAssignee: Dominic Hopf <dmaphy>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: any0n3, cwickert, dmaphy
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Hardware: x86_64   
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Description Burhan Ali 2011-10-28 15:00:37 UTC
abrt version: 2.0.3
architecture:   x86_64
cmdline:        
comment:        Crash after attempting to diff two directories from the command line within a screen session.
component:      meld
executable:     /usr/bin/meld
kernel:         2.6.40.6-0.fc15.x86_64
os_release:     Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)
package:        meld-1.5.2-1.fc15
reason:         prefs.py:94:__init__:GError: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Error connecting: Connection refused)
time:           Fri Oct 28 15:56:49 2011
uid:            506
username:       burhan

backtrace:
:prefs.py:94:__init__:GError: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Error connecting: Connection refused)
:
:Traceback (most recent call last):
:  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 137, in <module>
:    main()
:  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 128, in main
:    from meld.meldapp import app
:  File "/usr/share/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 196, in <module>
:    app = MeldApp()
:  File "/usr/share/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 111, in __init__
:    self.prefs = preferences.MeldPreferences()
:  File "/usr/share/meld/meld/preferences.py", line 258, in __init__
:    super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
:  File "/usr/share/meld/meld/util/prefs.py", line 94, in __init__
:    self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
:GError: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Error connecting: Connection refused)
:
:Local variables in innermost frame:
:rootkey: '/apps/meld'
:initial: {'use_custom_font': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239758>, 'statusbar_visible': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6e60>, 'color_conflict_bg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6b90>, 'custom_font': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239a70>, 'color_delete_bg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6a70>, 'use_syntax_highlighting': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239ea8>, 'color_edited_fg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6cf8>, 'text_codecs': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6998>, 'filters': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6dd0>, 'show_line_numbers': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239e18>, 'spaces_instead_of_tabs': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239dd0>, 'color_inline_fg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6c68>, 'edit_command_custom': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239f80>, 'regexes': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6d40>, 'tab_size': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239368>, 'show_whitespace': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239e60>, 'color_inline_bg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6c20>, 'color_delete_fg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6ab8>, 'ignore_blank_lines': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6d88>, 'window_size_x': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x122cab8>, 'window_size_y': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239fc8>, 'color_replace_fg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6b48>, 'color_replace_bg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6b00>, 'color_edited_bg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6cb0>, 'edit_command_type': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239f38>, 'color_conflict_fg': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6bd8>, 'toolbar_visible': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6e18>, 'edit_wrap_lines': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x1239ef0>, 'ignore_symlinks': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6950>, 'vc_console_visible': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x12d6a28>}
:self: <meld.preferences.MeldPreferences object at 0x1145650>

Comment 1 Burhan Ali 2011-10-31 15:08:27 UTC
Package: meld-1.5.2-1.fc15
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock)

Comment
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Trying to start meld from within a screen session.

Comment 2 Michael Spahn 2012-03-05 16:12:20 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 784739 ***