Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Tony Baldwin<photodharma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Matus UHLAR -
>> fantomas<uhlar@fantomas.sk> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 13.06.09 09:32, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports
>>>> 'Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.'  How do I fix this?  Is
>>>> it some idiotic "security feature"?  (I get really steamed when fear
>>>> overrides function!)
>>>
>>> why do you want to sun gnome-terminal under sudo, instead of running
>>> su/sudo
>>> in gnome terminal?
>>
>> Doing the former allows me to open new tabs as root, doing the latter
>> (with 'su') requires that I provide my root password every time; using
>> 'sudo' requires that I provide 'sudo command' every time.  It's just a
>> lot less convenient, but still doable, which is why the security
>> excuse is BS.  It's yet another example of sacrificing function to
>> fear.
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>
> Did you try
> gksu gnome-terminal
> ?
> If not, do try.

Yes - with gksu set to sudo-mode, it fails silently (i.e. no warning,
but no terminal either); with sudo-mode off, I get:

** (gnome-terminal:22316): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the
session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the
authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based
authentication failed

Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.

Patrick