thank you for your bug report, that's not a bug though gconf just uses dbus now so it needs a session bus running, you can run the command using dbus-launch which should work correctly
** Changed in: gconf (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- gconftool-2 in Intrepid not working from cron https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285937 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs