Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 474944
su -c 'gedit .. - (gedit:6058): EggSMClient-WARNING **
Last modified: 2008-12-11 16:24:50 EST
Created attachment 325927 [details] su -c 'gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo' error message Description of problem: Using su to start gedit creates error message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. su -c 'gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo' 2. insert password 3. Actual results: File is opened in gedit and many lies off error message " gedit:6058): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported 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. .. see attachment Expected results: File is opened in gedit and no error message like when getei is started from root. Additional info:
I Fedora F9 then [floki@flokif9 ~]$ su -c 'gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo' Password: (gedit:2866): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. [floki@flokif9 ~]$
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 474523 ***