Re: running gedit as su brings error
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:23:15PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote:
> Hello *
>
> Recently I've been getting an error I've not seen before in Gnome: when
> I run Gedit from a terminal as su, I get the following:
>
> 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://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
> for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did
> not receive a reply.)
>
> gnome.org explanations relate to redhat, with no guidance for Debian
> based systems.
>
> I get the same thing when calling gnome's system log monitor, but not
> when I call Synaptic.
>
> Any clues out there?
>
Try running it with sux or gksu rather than just plain su; that should
pass X privileges to any account you switch to
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