Hi Tim, > I have various Debian Squeeze machines. Some are running GDM3, but > where possible others have stayed with GDM2. I use XDMCP a lot with > all the machines, and one issue is that any of the Gnome apps (eg root > terminal) that require root authentication fail when logged in to a > GDM3 machine via XDMCP.
So these are things like menu items for Wireshark as root and a Terminal as root? It asks for the pleb user's password, like gksu(1), but then the command fails to run? > I'm guessing the following in auth.log could be a factor, and there's > some pam setting lurking: > > Oct 12 10:42:19 supermicro seahorse-agent[2019]: GConf error:#012 > Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a > missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See > http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Could > not send message to GConf daemon: Connection is closed) Can you look at seahorse-agent's environment, e.g. `tr \\0 \\n </proc/.../environ' and see if any of its SESSION variables give a clue. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: ???, ???day, 2012-11-?? 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
