#22992: gedit preferences locked ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: nigra@… | Owner: devans@… Type: defect | Status: assigned Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 1.8.1 Keywords: | Port: gedit ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by devans@…): * status: new => assigned Comment: I can't reproduce the problem here with gedit on SL 10.6.4 x86_64 (i5). Normally this type of behavior is symptomatic of a problem with the program accessing the gconfd server, either with GConf itself or a problem with dbus. While running gedit you see something like this: {{{ % ps ax ... 95474 ?? S 0:00.07 /opt/local/libexec/gconfd-2 ... }}} However, this usually results in error messages to the console (when you start it from CLI), if GConf is not working. Try setting the environment variable GEDIT_DEBUG_PREFS to get verbose debug output. This should tell you more than you wanted to know about gedit-prefences-manager and a line every time a preference is read or written. Also to verify that GConf is installed and working correctly, try running gconf-editor which allows you to view and edit preferences settings in GConf directly. Look under path /apps/gedit-2/preferences. Let me know if you find anything that sheds light on the situation. By the way, running from root should screw things up as you mentioned because GConf runs as part of the user session. -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/22992#comment:5> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS