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

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 8:05 PM Ken Brown wrote:

> Sorry, no idea.  I can't reproduce it.  Does it happen with emacs -Q?  Is
> dconf-service running when you get this message?  It's running on my system.

It still happens with "emacs -Q"

dconf-service is *not* running.  Should it be?  How would I start it?

On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:44 PM Brian Inglis wrote:

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

They look good here:

# ls -dlR ~/{.*/dconf,.dbus{,/*}}{,/*}

drwxrwx---+ 1 jjrei jjrei   0 Sep 24  2015 /cygdrive/d/Home/.cache/dconf
-rwxrwx---+ 1 jjrei jjrei   2 May 14 11:31 /cygdrive/d/Home/.cache/dconf/user
drwxrwx---+ 1 jjrei jjrei   0 Sep 24  2015 /cygdrive/d/Home/.dbus
drwxrwx---+ 1 jjrei jjrei   0 Apr 24 08:55 /cygdrive/d/Home/.dbus/session-bus
drwxrwx---+ 1 jjrei jjrei   0 Apr 24 08:55 /cygdrive/d/Home/.dbus/session-bus

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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, https://ad1c.us