EMACS: failed to commit changes to dconf: The connection is closed

[Brian Inglis]

On 2022-05-13 18:38, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> I'm running GNU Emacs 28.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-cygwin, GTK+ Version
> 3.22.28, cairo version 1.17.4)  of 2022-04-13 in an xterm in Cygwin X.
> I have a file open.  If I click on File | Save As... I get several
> copies of the following message:
> (emacs:2775): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf:
> The connection is closed
> What's happening here?

Check the ownership and permissions of common local X directories and 
files e.g.

$ ls -dlR ~/{.*/dconf,.dbus{,/*}}{,/*}
drwxr-xr-x 1 $USER $GROUP    0 Aug  5  2019 $HOME/.cache/dconf
-rw-r--r-- 1 $USER $GROUP    2 Mar 28  2020 $HOME/.cache/dconf/user
drwxr-xr-x 1 $USER $GROUP    0 Feb 20  2020 $HOME/.config/dconf
-rw-r--r-- 1 $USER $GROUP 1469 Feb 20  2020 $HOME/.config/dconf/user
drwxr-xr-x 1 $USER $GROUP    0 Mar 27  2020 $HOME/.dbus
drwxr-xr-x 1 $USER $GROUP    0 Jul 16  2020 $HOME/.dbus/session-bus
-rw-r--r-- 1 $USER $GROUP  461 May 13 16:37 $HOME/.dbus/session-bus/ 
4f296f2ddbc2ee9b3ad5647a51930970-0
-rw-r--r-- 1 $USER $GROUP  463 Jul 16  2020 $HOME/.dbus/session-bus/ 
4f296f2ddbc2ee9b3ad5647a51930970-1

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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