Emacs 24.2 , Gedit-2.30.4 and dbus issue

[Juh924]

Hello everybody,

I've just finished compiling my new FreeBSD system yesterday (following FreeBSD 9 Stable) and I'm now starting installing again everything from ports.

Emacs 24.2,3 wasn't starting on X11 (Gedit was working correctly even though there were some warnings on the Terminal. After reading a post about this issue, I added to my .xinitrc file the following line:

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch awesome

Emacs can now be launched as a user without any warnings.

However, trying to launch emacs as root make it crash with the following errors:

(emacs:10024): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_connection_add_filter: assertion `G_IS_DBUS_CONNECTION (connection)' failed
g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting

and Gedit crashes as well giving the following error (when started as root):

GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: The connection is closed)
g_dbus_connection_real_closed: Remote peer vanished with error: Underlying GIOStream returned 0 bytes on an async read (g-io-error-quark, 0). Exiting.
Terminated

Is there a way to solve this problem? I've read somewhere that dbus could be disabled. However there are a lot of ports depending on dbus on my system.

Thank you very much,

 

[cpm@]

Please, install editors/emacs with this options disabled, and leave the other default:

DBUS=off: D-Bus IPC system
GCONF=off: GConf configuration backend
GSETTINGS=off: GSettings support

 

[purgatori]

There shouldn't be any need to launch Emacs as root. If you need to edit a file with root permissions -- for example, hosts.allow, then:

C-x C-f /su::/etc/hosts.allow