Bug 1537529 – gnome-system-log cant open display on Wayland

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Bug 1537529 - gnome-system-log cant open display on Wayland [NEEDINFO]

Summary:	gnome-system-log cant open display on Wayland

Status:	ASSIGNED

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	mutter (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.5
Hardware:	Unspecified Unspecified

Priority	unspecified Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Florian Müllner
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
Docs Contact:	Jana Heves

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Reported:	2018-01-23 07:55 EST by Tomas Pelka
Modified:	2018-03-21 16:46 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Doc Type:	Known Issue
Doc Text:	gnome-system-log does not work on Wayland Currently, when logged in a Wayland session, the root user is not allowed to access the user's Xwayland display. As a consequence, running the gnome-system-log utility in terminal does not display system log files. To work around this problem, run the following xhost server access control program as follows: $ xhost +si:localuser:root
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Flags:	jsvarova: needinfo? (rstrode)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
GNOME Bugzilla	789867	None	None	None	2018-02-13 14:37 EST

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Description Tomas Pelka 2018-01-23 07:55:17 EST

Description of problem:
gnome-system-log is broken on wayland

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-system-log-3.9.90-3.el7
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland-1.19.5-2.el7
libwayland-*-1.14.0-2.el7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. be logged into wayland session
2. open terminal
3. run gnome-system-log

Actual results:
No protocol specified

(logview:11210): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1

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Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2018-02-13 14:37:11 EST

that's because we don't allow root to access the user's Xwayland display. 
running:

$ xhost +si:localuser:root

would probably fix it. 

mutter could presumably fix it with an XAddHost call.  Probably going to miss 7.5 at this point.

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