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  1. Bug #454234
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 454234

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote : Re: [Bug 454234] Re: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 21:19 +0000, peddanet wrote:

> @Erez :
>
> I was looking for opening the properties window for my .avi file. Your
> patch seems to solve my problem. Now I do not get these annoying
> messages "Creating properties window" and the properties window come
> quickly up. But I - at the moment (before reboot) - do have the problem
> that "sudo nautilus" did not work and comes up with:
>
> "(nautilus:10857): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Error while sending message:
> Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application
> did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply,
> the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."
>
> Also have problems in the same to access "WIndows network", if this
> matters here.
>

Those extra symptoms are not a bug, and are completely unrelated to the
problem described in this bug report. That behaviour is because there is
no dbus-daemon and gvfs daemon running in your sudo session. Such
discussion would be better suited in the answer tracker rather than on
an unrelated bug report though.