Brilliant,

I now have gnome-terminal refusing to open as well. I suspect something
is very not ok ...

tho...@thomas-laptop:~$ nano gdb-gedit-1000.txt
tho...@thomas-laptop:~$ touch 
~/Desktop/gdb-gedit-debugfile-with-garbage-in-it-and-not-my-private-passwords
tho...@thomas-laptop:~$ gedit 
~/Desktop/gdb-gedit-debugfile-with-garbage-in-it-and-not-my-private-passwords
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
(gedit:22499): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
tho...@thomas-laptop:~$ nano 
~/Desktop/gdb-gedit-debugfile-with-garbage-in-it-and-not-my-private-passwords
tho...@thomas-laptop:~$ cat 
~/Desktop/gdb-gedit-debugfile-with-garbage-in-it-and-not-my-private-passwords
garbage
tho...@thomas-laptop:~$ gdb gedit 2>&1 | tee gdb-gedit-1000-under-gdb.txt
GNU gdb 6.8-debian
Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type "show copying"
and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
(gdb) handle SIG33 pass nostop noprint
Signal        Stop      Print   Pass to program Description
SIG33         No        No      Yes             Real-time event 33
(gdb) set pagination 0
(gdb) set logging file gdb-gedit-1000-under-gdb.log
(gdb) set logging on
Copying output to gdb-gedit-1000-under-gdb.log.
(gdb)

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gedit fails to run as root in jaunty
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