Re: gksu: Couldn't set environment variable...

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:42:25 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:

> Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón:
> 
>>> I can not run two applications w/ gksu:
>>> 
>>> chromium and
>>> 
>>> qbittorrent
>>> 
>>> w/ the error:
>>> 
>>> Couldn't set environment variable...
>>
>>Is it only happening with just that two programs?
> 
> For a new user it works too, but for the old one - all work except these
> two. I have searched through dir.s and files that were created for the
> new user (its home dir. was empty and did remove the appropriate dir.s
> in the home dir. of the problematic user - did not solve the problem.
> 
> The dir.s were, IIRC:
> 
> .dbus
> .gconf
> .gconfd
> 
> Any other dir/file suggestion?

You can try to reboot. Strange things can happen when gnome is updated 
and some files are still in use.

>>Try adding the "debug" parameter:
>>
>>gksu -d chromium
>>gksu -d qbittorrent
> 
> $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium 

May I ask why are you giving the full path to both binaries? :-?

Also, try to run gksu as root user.

(...)

> [23477:23477:49752580053:FATAL:browser_main.cc(1362)] Check failed:
> PathService::Get(chrome::DIR_USER_DATA, &user_data_dir). Must be able to
> get user data directory! Aborted

(...)

> $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/qbittorrent
(..)
> buf: -gksu: waiting Couldn't set environment variable...
> 
> 
> So, both can not get  access to the required user's environment - for
> some reason.

Let's see what are the perms of the user "~/.config" directory:

ls -la | grep config

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón