On 02/29/2012 09:46 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
I saw a posting on this group recently saying that xemacs is about to be dropped, so decided I better start training my fingers to use emacs instead. Am running openSuSE 11.4 x86_64 and tried to fire off emacs and it barfed -
emacs vsftpd.conf & [1] 22024 bigbang:/srv/ftp # GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server;
Are you running Emacs as root and did a simple "su" and not a "su -"? That gives a different environment and might explain the issue.
Does running emacs as normal user work fine - and does it work with "su -"?
Andreas Thanks Andreas for your reply! Well I learned something new, I did not know about the ability to do an "su -" I have always done a simple "su root" Anywise doing an "su -" appears to make emacs a bit healthier in
On 3/2/2012 1:46 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote: that it does launch a window and starts up, but there is an error message that also gets chucked up in the process - bigbang:/etc # emacs vsftpd.conf (emacs:4435): GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was requested but SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN and ECHILD was received by waitpid(), so exit status can't be returned. This is a bug in the program calling g_spawn_sync(); either don't request the exit status, or don't set the SIGCHLD action. GConf Error: 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: Abnormal program termination spawning command line `dbus-launch --autolaunch=6b050dcfcaf094a4a7c7a30e000002ae --binary-syntax --close-stderr': ) I also observed that doing an "su -" relocated my current path to root's home directory and does not leave me in the directory from which I executed it. A bit of a PITA but I can live with it... To answer your other question, emacs works fine (at least no error messages are shown) when launched as a normal user, just launching it from the root user seems to give it fits... Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org