[Bug 1845892] Re: gedit crashes system when launched from terminal as root

2019-09-30 Thread Bashing-om
converted to a question. ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid ** Converted to question: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+question/684506 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1845892] Re: gedit crashes system when launched from terminal as root

2019-09-30 Thread Bashing-om
Guilherme; Well As this no longer appears to be a bug, I am moving this to Launchpad Answers. I will meet you there and we will further explore your issue. Thanks for taking the time to make ubuntu better. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 1845892] Re: gedit crashes system when launched from terminal as root

2019-09-30 Thread Guilherme
Bashing-om, I tried sudo -H gedit and went to search your suggestion on pkexec which lead me to this post on how to use it: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/203136/how-do-i-run-gui-applications-as-root-by-using-pkexec#answer-203149 Both of these solutions opens gedit but with an

[Bug 1845892] Re: gedit crashes system when launched from terminal as root

2019-09-29 Thread Bashing-om
Guilherme; Hey - The fact of the matter is that "sudo" is no longer the means to enable 'root's" use of GUI applications; as gksu is depreciated. Not a miss- configuration of the system either. Preferable is "admin://" - though there are 2 other alternates that I am aware of. If you do, as I,

[Bug 1845892] Re: gedit crashes system when launched from terminal as root

2019-09-29 Thread Guilherme
Hi there Bashing-om. Thanks for the quick response. I'm starting gedit from terminal. $gedit runs without any issue, however $sudo gedit ... yields all the said issues. As a layman in the subject, I don't know if this is really a bug or misconfiguration in my system. But the fact is that it

[Bug 1845892] Re: gedit crashes system when launched from terminal as root

2019-09-29 Thread Bashing-om
Hello Guilherme You do not say how you are starting gedit. As policykit now applies what results: gedit admin:///etc/apt/sources ? ** Changed in: gedit (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed