Ubuntu 16.04.1LTS - (tracker-extract:3459): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.

[chris pollock]

chris@localhost:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release: 16.04

chris@localhost:~$ apt-cache policy tracker-extract
tracker-extract:
  Installed: 1.8.2-0ubuntu1~xenial3
  Candidate: 1.8.2-0ubuntu1~xenial3
  Version table:
 *** 1.8.2-0ubuntu1~xenial3 500
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

Jan 5 15:10:42 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3459]: (tracker-extract:3459): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.

Jan 5 15:12:25 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3459]: message repeated 2 times: [ (tracker-extract:3459): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.]

Jan 5 15:14:27 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3459]: (tracker-extract:3459): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.

and so on every two minutes +- a few seconds.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

As you can see tonight this was written to syslog almost exactly every 2 minutes between 8pm and 9pm

Jan 29 20:01:15 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:03:15 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:05:18 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:07:19 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:09:20 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:11:20 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:13:22 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:15:25 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:17:25 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:19:27 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:21:28 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:23:28 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:25:35 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:27:25 localhost named[1611]: REFUSED unexpected RCODE resolving 'cactiguide.com/AAAA/IN': 77.68.37.156#53
Jan 29 20:27:25 localhost named[1611]: REFUSED unexpected RCODE resolving 'cactiguide.com/A/IN': 77.68.37.156#53
Jan 29 20:27:35 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]: (tracker-extract:3344): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Jan 29 20:29:36 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3344]...

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

I'm still seeing this all the time. Is anything being done to fix the issue?

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

Feb 24 13:05:11 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3603]: (tracker-extract:3603): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Feb 24 13:09:14 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3603]: message repeated 2 times: [ (tracker-extract:3603): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.]
Feb 24 13:11:16 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3603]: (tracker-extract:3603): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Feb 24 13:13:18 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3603]: (tracker-extract:3603): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
Feb 24 13:15:19 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3603]: (tracker-extract:3603): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.

[Not Martin Wimpress (not-martinwimpress)]

I'm seeing this on Antergos recently. Have you been using gksu recently and otherwise-strange terminal errors started popping up?

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

On Sat, 2017-02-25 at 04:14 +0000, Not Martin Wimpress wrote:
> I'm seeing this on Antergos recently. Have you been using gksu
> recently
> and otherwise-strange terminal errors started popping up?
>
I use gksu occasionally but not in the past month or so that I can
recall. This shows up constantly:

Feb 25 06:33:19 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3603]: (tracker-
extract:3603): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file
'/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied.  dconf will not work
properly.
Feb 25 06:35:21 localhost tracker-extract.desktop[3603]: (tracker-
extract:3603): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file
'/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied.  dconf will not work
properly.

I can see it in every one of my hourly syslog snippets that are emailed
to me.

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Chris
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Description: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS, kernel 4.4.0-64-generic

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

Please see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779342 a fix has been made by Gnome tracker devs. Ubuntu tracker devs, please pick this up and apply.

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

I had to chance this from dconf to tracker. I filed the same bug with Gnome - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779342 and a fix has already been released.

[chris pollock (cpollock)]

Why is there no importance placed on this bug nor has it been assigned to anyone?

[ALinuxUser (buntulongername-new)]

I have just now experienced this when doing an update on Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon.