On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Osamu Aoki<[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:27:56AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Patrick Wiseman<[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Andrei Popescu<[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> On Sat,13.Jun.09, 09:32:52, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >>> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports >> >> How do you know that? I thought gksu was used for that. Try: >> >> gksu gnome-terminal >> > ** (gnome-terminal:14228): 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. >> > >> > Which, I suppose, is slightly more informative. But the fact remains >> > that Root Terminal in the Accessories menu is, for some reason, >> > disabled. (This is on a fully up-to-date, amd64, testing system.) >> >> Further Googling informs me that "the result [of Gconf using D-Bus] is >> that root applications can’t use the user’s GConf settings anymore. >> This is a design restriction in D-Bus." >> [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518390] Well, >> that's just stupid, especially for experienced users like myself; I >> NEED to be able to use gnome-terminal as root. I don't want a hackish >> workaround, I just want it to work as it always has. Is there ANY way >> to make D-Bus less restrictive? > > Well, does this problem happens if user uses sudo mode for gksu. > > Application-> System Tools-> Configuration Editor: > /apps/gksu/sudo-mode
Makes no difference; 'gksu gnome-terminal' fails without a message. > Also question is what happens if you enter followings in terminal. > > $ su -c gnome-terminal > $ sudo gnome-terminal > $ sudo -H gnome-terminal All fail with "Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting." Apparently, dbus will accept changes in a system-local.conf file, so I'll see if I can figure out what I need to do in there. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
