meld - Execution error: Dynamic session lookup supported but failed

[mitch.lin@…]

When trying to run meld, I received this error:

~) meld
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display "/tmp/launch-35b2YH/org.x:0".
Dynamic session lookup supported but failed: launchd did not provide a socket path, verify that org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist is loaded!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/local/bin/meld", line 102, in <module>
    meldapp.main()
  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 921, in main
    app = MeldApp()
  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 425, in __init__
    self.prefs = MeldPreferences()
  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/meldapp.py", line 366, in __init__
    super(MeldPreferences, self).__init__("/apps/meld", self.defaults)
  File "/opt/local/lib/meld/prefs.py", line 92, in __init__
    self._gconf.add_dir(rootkey, gconf.CLIENT_PRELOAD_NONE)
glib.GError: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Not enough memory)

[drkp (Dan Ports)]

Probably means dbus isn't running -- did you run the commands listed in port notes dbus?

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

Yes, this is what happens when dbus isn't running.