Re: package managers problem

[Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>]

On 21/06/2023 01:15, gene heskett wrote:
> 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

My guess is that

    env | grep DISPLAY

does not contain WAYLAND_DISPLAY in your case, so the issue is 
completely unrelated to wayland. As I wrote in another message, the 
~/.Xauthority file is likely either not owned by your user or it is 
corrupted.