Description of problem: Cannot run nautilus as root from a terminal when logged in as a user. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fc10 Preview How reproducible: Login as a user, Open a terminal, su to root type nautilus Actual results: (nautilus:2848): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.) Additional info: cleared all /tmp/ Still same problem.
Install was from Live CD fc10 Preview
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
First of all: It also appears on Mandriva 2009.1 for example. It seems the reason is gnome. My solution: Update java Add it to the webbrowser-plugins (in my case Firefox) (maybe it's not important, but it won't cause damage) Now start the program via su - root I know, that it is a risk to start programs as root, but in my case it's the only way to get them running again. PS: Starting Songbird also causes this error.
The real reason is d-bus - see http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17970 Why do you need to run GUI apps as different user within one desktop session anyway?
(In reply to comment #4) > The real reason is d-bus - see > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17970 > > Why do you need to run GUI apps as different user within one desktop session > anyway? Because sometimes nautilus as a root is necessary and some apps won't start without root-permissions... And before you answer something like 'change the permission-details of the files': I tried it...
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