Re: package managers problem

[gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>]

On 6/20/23 14:35, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:15:19 -0400
> gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > gene@coyote:/usr/local/bin$ pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic
> > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not
> > connect: Connection refused
> > Failed to initialize GTK.
> >
> > Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission.
> > Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without
> > root permission
> >
> > which might work if it wasn't for the invalid magic cookie, so how do
> > I get an accceptable version of that?
>
> No one's really broken down that initial error message. I think it's
> some sort of red herring. I don't think it's actually a "magic cookie"
> thing. I suspect something else is going on. For example, it also says
> it can't initialize GTK. Why? Does Synaptic rely on GTK libraries which
> aren't present? I don't know the answer; I'm just asking questions. And
> what server is it unable to "init"? Can you run other GUI apps with
> sudo?
geany it seems might have a problem.
But it wasn't installed so I just used packagekit to install all of it 
as I use it heavily writing g-codes, so lets try it live and in person:

root@coyote:~# geany .Xauthority
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: 
Connection refused
Geany: cannot open display

But it runs just fine as me, but cannot open my own .Xauthority,unknown 
file format error: No mention of permissions. error window won't 
copy/paste. Very small snapshot attached. It did go into its history and 
opened an OpenSCAD file it had last worked on before the reinstall which 
I closed, also shown in the snapshot if it clears the server.



> Unfortunately, I on Xorg, so I can test what you're talking about.
>
> Paul

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