[SOLVED] Old Hat, New Tricks: (firewall-config:39460): dconf-WARNING

Samohttnias · 2024-06-29 04:34:01

Disclaimer before the troglodytes start throwing trash for no reason:
I am new to Arch, but not new to Linux, so I'm not a complete Luddite, but I haven''t used Linux in over six years, so please be patient; I'm relearning everything and learning new things every hour. I'm a like a reborn Christian, right now; baby steps and blindfolds.

The long and short of it:
So far I've run into a bunch of humps, but work them out using the forums. This new problem isn't really getting in my way, but I want to fix it before it rears it's head in a larger more complex way.
I just installed Arch, got mullvad running, refreshed myself on git, got my desktop set up how I like, now I'm going online and setting up with my other machines, so I sent pacman to chomp on Firewalld, he installed it, got it all set up just fine the way I like it and then went to launch the Services panel from console using the following command:

$ sudo firewall-config

oh boy....

(firewall-config:39460): dconf-WARNING **: 21:10:41.222: failed to commit changes to dconf: Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=f2aa068c1b494b02b94c6b2a8e67a84f --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1
(firewall-config:39460): dconf-WARNING **: 21:10:41.222: failed to commit changes to dconf: Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=f2aa068c1b494b02b94c6b2a8e67a84f --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1

Now, I am at an impasse, because I have skimmed the forums and hunted for an answer, I even asked AI (I know. I'll flog myself later.). Alas, this error keeps coming up.
Here's the good news, the services panel does indeed load and I am able to do everything I need to, but this error concerns me because I fear it may rear it's head with another program and actually stop me from getting work done. I don't need this old bastard of a computer to be perfect, it's just for school and recreation but the less worries the better.
Thank you for your help!

Last edited by Samohttnias (2024-06-29 11:21:33)

seth · 2024-06-29 07:33:38

he installed it

pacmans preferred pronoun is "it", it identifies as being a tool.

More seriously and on topic, try to not "sudo" it.
Running GUI tools as root is a bad idea to begin with and firewalld depends on polkit for privilege escalation so there's a good chance you can run the GUI as regular user and get asked for your credentials when necessary.
Anything that depends on dbus would require you to preserve $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and you could also have $XAUTHORITY in a non-standrd path (some DMs do that) but again:
avoid running GUI stuff as root unless it's absolutely required.

Samohttnias · 2024-06-29 11:20:39

Well played, Seth; I forget that in the twenty-first century people's preferences matter.
Alas, you have answered by questions. Cheers and thank you.

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#1 2024-06-29 04:34:01

[SOLVED] Old Hat, New Tricks: (firewall-config:39460): dconf-WARNING

#2 2024-06-29 07:33:38

Re: [SOLVED] Old Hat, New Tricks: (firewall-config:39460): dconf-WARNING

#3 2024-06-29 11:20:39

Re: [SOLVED] Old Hat, New Tricks: (firewall-config:39460): dconf-WARNING

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