Bug 638415

Summary:	Failed to connect to the session manager
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Brandon <h_fone>
Component:	gedit	Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	14	CC:	mclasen, rstrode
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Description Brandon 2010-09-28 23:34:37 UTC

Description of problem:


[brandon@localhost ~]$ su -c 'gedit /etc/pulse/daemon.conf'
Password: 

(gedit:3873): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported

**
GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL)
[brandon@localhost ~]$ 


*trying to edit pulse .conf for 5.1 surround sound. used vim instead.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2010-10-08 22:13:47 UTC

Not a bug, at least not a gedit bug. If you run it as root, it doesn't have access to your session bus, and thus neither session management nor gio functionality are available.