Comment 68 for bug 1197395

Following 11-11-2011 F16 updates I have following problem
99% certain this did not happen before the updates

Login to the console as fred
Create a konsole window

[fred@naxos ~]$ xhost +
access control disabled, clients can connect from any host
[fred@naxos ~]$ su - ja
Password:
ja@naxos ~ 1$ export DISPLAY=:0.0
ja@naxos ~ 2$ gedit prob.txt
** (gedit:4544): CRITICAL **: unable to create '/run/user/fred/dconf'; dconf will not work properly.
ja@naxos ~ 3$

Editing is possible but ja preferences are not honoured

Why is gedit trying to create a file in fred's directory?
[root@naxos ~]# ls -l /run/user/
total 0
drwx------. 4 fred fred 80 Nov 11 11:29 fred
drwx------. 2 root root 40 Nov 11 12:00 root

Fully updated F16
Using KDM and XFCE (not GDM or Gnome)

[root@naxos ~]# yum info gconf*
Installed Packages
Name : GConf2
Arch : x86_64
Version : 3.2.3
Release : 1.fc16
Size : 6.2 M
Repo : installed
From repo : local-16-update
Summary : A process-transparent configuration system
URL : http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/
License : LGPLv2+
Description : GConf is a process-transparent configuration database API used to
            : store user preferences. It has pluggable backends and features to
            : support workgroup administration.

[root@naxos ~]# yum info dconf
Installed Packages
Name : dconf
Arch : x86_64
Version : 0.10.0
Release : 1.fc16
Size : 210 k
Repo : installed
From repo : anaconda-0
Summary : A configuration system
URL : http://live.gnome.org/dconf
License : LGPLv2+
Description : dconf is a low-level configuration system. Its main purpose is to provide a
            : backend to the GSettings API in GLib.