On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 14:12 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On 10/04/07, HappyEvilSlosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu xterm > > Warning: Tried to connect to session manager, Authentication Rejected, > > reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported > > and host-based authentication failed > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu id > > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1002(admin) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > OK, so it's not a problem with gnome-admin-tools,
How did you get that? I thought id was provided on most systems and gnome-admin-tools provided a front end to it? Or at least something along those lines. > it's a problem with > gksu not correctly setting up the environment for an X connection; Except it work fine with things like synaptic. Indeed anything not included in the aforementioned package. > > xterm did open up logged in as root ok though, both asked for password > > and accepted fine. > > The fact that xterm eventually opened suggests that the error message > isn't actually fatal though. Odd. I'm reasonably sure the error showed up when it was working. I suspect it is just a GUI thing that's unrelated to the current problem. > What OS/version? debian unstable on 2.6.18-4-686 (yeah I know I know: unstable)
