Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications. I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I don't know. Workarounds you might try: - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. - ssh -Y r...@localhost Wonko I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password. Does that mean you are not using the standard konsole, rather a special icon intended to open a root terminal? Must be, otherwise it wouldn't ask for the root password. Try opening a standard user konsole and just use su instead. (Or even, heaven forbid, an xterm instead of konsole.) That should detect a KDE problem if it exists. The way I did was this. The entry you have but I edited it to run as root when it is clicked on. I have a couple things that are set that way. Kbackup is set that way. It can't access some files I want to backup if it is set to run as a user. You can edit this by clicking the advanced tab in the menu editor. I also have konqueror set as my file manager and it is set to run as root. It is running on another desktop right now. It works fine. I can run Kbackup, as root, and it connects just fine. I just tried it to make sure. Since I can go to my /root directory, I know it is running as root. Weird things always happen to me. Why can't something weird like winning the lottery happen to me? lol Dale :-) :-) OK. I finally fixed this so that it works. Naturally it was simple but I wanted to share. ;-) Edit the menu item for konsole and on the line where it says command, enter this: konsole --profile root Remove the quotes of course. That is part one. Part two, open a console and create a new profile named root. If you name it something else, edit the line above to match. Then in the General tab in the box command, type in /bin/su -. Remove the quotes of course. Save everything. Then when you click on it in the future, it will open as a user BUT it asks for the root password. Then you can run programs and it find the GUI. This has worked with kwrite and elogviewer so far. Yea, this was driving me nuts. I knew this could work but had to figure out how to make it work. The command to run was my light bulb moment. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On Monday 26 April 2010 18:59:26 Dale wrote: Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I'm running this in a Konsole, part of KDE, so just where would I set this up? I don't usually have to mess with it and it just works. I'm on KDE 4.4.2. Maybe this is a feature of KDE4 until it gets fixed. ;-) I run hp-setup at a virtual console, no X running. Have you tried that? -- Rgds Peter.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 26 April 2010 18:59:26 Dale wrote: Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I'm running this in a Konsole, part of KDE, so just where would I set this up? I don't usually have to mess with it and it just works. I'm on KDE 4.4.2. Maybe this is a feature of KDE4 until it gets fixed. ;-) I run hp-setup at a virtual console, no X running. Have you tried that? I haven't but I guess I could. Things is, there is more than just hp-setup that needs to be run from time to time. I did open a Konsole as user then su to root. That worked fine. I could run elogviewer too. Now to just figure out a way to get the other to work the way it used to. I hope I don't have to install KDE3 and figure out how it was set up to work. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment? Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I'm running this in a Konsole, part of KDE, so just where would I set this up? I don't usually have to mess with it and it just works. I'm on KDE 4.4.2. Maybe this is a feature of KDE4 until it gets fixed. ;-) Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On 04/26/2010 10:59 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment? Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 Wait, this is more complicated than I thought. The error above clearly mentions display :0.0, which should be correct unless you're running multiple X sessions. When I 'unset DISPLAY' I get 'DISPLAY is not set'. Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 10:59 AM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment? Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 Wait, this is more complicated than I thought. The error above clearly mentions display :0.0, which should be correct unless you're running multiple X sessions. When I 'unset DISPLAY' I get 'DISPLAY is not set'. Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX? I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-) r...@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth* -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 17:31 /root/.xauth9yEErh -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthAfQHY0 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthEltCUe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Apr 26 14:06 /root/.xauthFBdWPY -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthJJISAe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 3 2009 /root/.xauthMjZyQi -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 29 2009 /root/.xauthOApO1i -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 25 2009 /root/.xauthSshOXz -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 2009 /root/.xauthbFAjxt -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 4 2009 /root/.xauthdKOWE3 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 9 2009 /root/.xauthfCNLCo -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthhhDOTW -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthjRxXE8 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 13 13:09 /root/.xauthm5cv93 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 23 2009 /root/.xauthnARKQ1 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthnaLVUB r...@smoker ~ # Do I need to log out of KDE, delete those then login again? What generates those and is something wrong that makes it create those? Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On Monday 26 April 2010 19:59:26 Dale wrote: walt wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this little error message: r...@smoker / # elogviewer No protocol specified /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment? Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error: No protocol specified hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0 I'm running this in a Konsole, part of KDE, so just where would I set this up? I don't usually have to mess with it and it just works. I'm on KDE 4.4.2. Maybe this is a feature of KDE4 until it gets fixed. ;-) The X server is running at Dale and you are trying to connect to it as root. It (correctly) disapproves of this and is telling you so, while still remaining polite. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On 04/26/2010 01:53 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX? I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-) r...@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth* -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 17:31 /root/.xauth9yEErh -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthAfQHY0 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthEltCUe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Apr 26 14:06 /root/.xauthFBdWPY -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthJJISAe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 3 2009 /root/.xauthMjZyQi -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 29 2009 /root/.xauthOApO1i -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 25 2009 /root/.xauthSshOXz -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 2009 /root/.xauthbFAjxt -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 4 2009 /root/.xauthdKOWE3 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 9 2009 /root/.xauthfCNLCo -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthhhDOTW -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthjRxXE8 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 13 13:09 /root/.xauthm5cv93 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 23 2009 /root/.xauthnARKQ1 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthnaLVUB r...@smoker ~ # Do I need to log out of KDE, delete those then login again? What generates those and is something wrong that makes it create those? I deleted all of them and generated a new one just by doing su from an xterm. Does that work for you?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 01:53 PM, Dale wrote: walt wrote: Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXX? I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-) r...@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth* -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 17:31 /root/.xauth9yEErh -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthAfQHY0 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthEltCUe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Apr 26 14:06 /root/.xauthFBdWPY -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthJJISAe -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 3 2009 /root/.xauthMjZyQi -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 29 2009 /root/.xauthOApO1i -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 25 2009 /root/.xauthSshOXz -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 2009 /root/.xauthbFAjxt -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 4 2009 /root/.xauthdKOWE3 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 9 2009 /root/.xauthfCNLCo -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthhhDOTW -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthjRxXE8 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Dec 13 13:09 /root/.xauthm5cv93 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Sep 23 2009 /root/.xauthnARKQ1 -rw--- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthnaLVUB r...@smoker ~ # Do I need to log out of KDE, delete those then login again? What generates those and is something wrong that makes it create those? I deleted all of them and generated a new one just by doing su from an xterm. Does that work for you? Well, I deleted them all, logged out of KDE and back in. I still get the same thing as before with hp-setup. Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications. I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I don't know. Workarounds you might try: - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. - ssh -Y r...@localhost Wonko
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:46:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I deleted them all, logged out of KDE and back in. I still get the same thing as before with hp-setup. Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. Are you using su, sudo or sux? -- Neil Bothwick I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications. I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I don't know. Workarounds you might try: - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. - ssh -Y r...@localhost Wonko I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password. It just uses the konsole command but it is told to run as root. This is pretty much how it did in KDE3 tho. When I open it, it pops up a window and asks for the root password. Then it opens Konsole. This is done from the little K menu thingy. That make sense? Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications. I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I don't know. Workarounds you might try: - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. - ssh -Y r...@localhost Wonko I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password. Does that mean you are not using the standard konsole, rather a special icon intended to open a root terminal? Must be, otherwise it wouldn't ask for the root password. Try opening a standard user konsole and just use su instead. (Or even, heaven forbid, an xterm instead of konsole.) That should detect a KDE problem if it exists.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:46:57 -0500, Dale wrote: Well, I deleted them all, logged out of KDE and back in. I still get the same thing as before with hp-setup. Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. Are you using su, sudo or sux? I am using none of the above. I say I because the menu system for KDE may be using one of those. The KDE menu thingy has a entry that says Konsole. I edited the settings for it to run as root. When I click on the entry for it to run, a window pops up and asks for the root password. When I enter it, konsole opens as root. Now that I think about it, it used to open a Konsole window,ask for the password and go to a root prompt. That was in KDE3. No pop up window in KDE3. KDE4 has a little pop up window THEN the Konsole opens up as root. That is different so maybe I need to set something different for it to start up and be able to connect to the GUI. I unmerged KDE3 so I can't go look and see how it was set up. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
walt wrote: On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in KDE3. It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications. I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I don't know. Workarounds you might try: - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. - ssh -Y r...@localhost Wonko I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password. Does that mean you are not using the standard konsole, rather a special icon intended to open a root terminal? Must be, otherwise it wouldn't ask for the root password. Try opening a standard user konsole and just use su instead. (Or even, heaven forbid, an xterm instead of konsole.) That should detect a KDE problem if it exists. The way I did was this. The entry you have but I edited it to run as root when it is clicked on. I have a couple things that are set that way. Kbackup is set that way. It can't access some files I want to backup if it is set to run as a user. You can edit this by clicking the advanced tab in the menu editor. I also have konqueror set as my file manager and it is set to run as root. It is running on another desktop right now. It works fine. I can run Kbackup, as root, and it connects just fine. I just tried it to make sure. Since I can go to my /root directory, I know it is running as root. Weird things always happen to me. Why can't something weird like winning the lottery happen to me? lol Dale :-) :-)
