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meld seems to work fine with I hack /usr/share/meld/meld/util/prefs.py and disable the references to _gconf.

It will of course be without gconf support, but that is better than crashing.

Did you have dbus-x11 and dbus-python installed?

(In reply to comment #5)
> Did you have dbus-x11 and dbus-python installed?

I think so ... but I connected with ssh and dbus wasn't running.

I would expect that it worked with ssh -X - and either worked without 'session services' like dbus or started (and stopped) them as necessary.

Description of problem:
Comparing two files

Version-Release number of selected component:
meld-1.7.0-1.fc18

Additional info:
cmdline:        python /usr/bin/meld cupsd.conf cupsd.conf.O
executable:     /usr/bin/meld
kernel:         3.7.9-201.fc18.x86_64
uid:            0

Truncated backtrace:
prefs.py:93:__init__:GError: No D-BUS daemon running


Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 154, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/meld", line 136, in main
    import meld.meldapp
  File "/usr/share/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 216, in <module>
    app = MeldApp()
  File "/usr/share/meld/meld/meldapp.py", line 113, in __init__
    self.prefs = preferences.MeldPreferences()
  File "/usr/share/meld/meld/preferences.py", line 259, in __init__
    super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
  File "/usr/share/meld/meld/util/prefs.py", line 93, in __init__
    self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
GError: No D-BUS daemon running


Local variables in innermost frame:
rootkey: '/apps/meld'
initial: {'use_custom_font': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2414ab8>, 'statusbar_visible': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2478c68>, 'custom_font': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2414170>, 'use_syntax_highlighting': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2414950>, 'text_codecs': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2414a70>, 'filters': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2478908>, 'show_line_numbers': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x24148c0>, 'spaces_instead_of_tabs': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2414878>, 'edit_command_custom': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2414a28>, 'regexes': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2478878>, 'tab_size': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x24145a8>, 'show_whitespace': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2414908>, 'edit_wrap_lines': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2414998>, 'ignore_blank_lines': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2478bd8>, 'window_size_x': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2406908>, 'window_size_y': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2411f80>, 'vc_status_filters': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2478cf8>, 'edit_command_type': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x24149e0>, 'toolbar_visible': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2478c20>, 'dir_status_filters': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x2478cb0>, 'ignore_symlinks': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x24787e8>, 'vc_console_visible': <meld.util.prefs.Value object at 0x24787a0>}
self: <meld.preferences.MeldPreferences object at 0x2305990>

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