Comment 2 for bug 328575

I was unaware that the D-Bus port of GConf made it into a stable release. For the most part it was a hack for the maemo and shouldn't be use unless there was some development there recently. I don't see it running as a D-Bus service on my system.

Most likely the report is wrong. There isn't much details other than there is an error and configuration is lost. Does GEdit run? It runs just fine for me though GnomeUI does complain:

 GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

That is absolutely because the user is trying to run as a different uid but still has the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS pointing to his own bus. This is completely a security feature and not a bug. Using `su -` is the correct way to log into a new session. BTW by the above warning it is the session manager that can't be connected to. The suggestion at http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=2980#c7 is correct except for the su suggestion is swapped. The correct command is su - not su.

Closing as not a bug.