Am So, den 26.06.2005 schrieb Jonathan Berry um 6:15: > I've noticed that with FC4 if I use "sudo su -" to get a root shell > and try to open an X application (like a GUI text editor, for > instance) I get the error: > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > GUI programs work just fine using "su -" and "sudo -s" Running > "export" in all three cases shows the "su -" creates a .xauthXXXXXX > file and assigns the XAUTHORITY variable. "sudo -s" doesn't change > the environment, so it uses the same file that my user does > (~/.Xauthority). However, "sudo su -" does not create the needed > .xauth file or assign the variable. This used to work in FC3. Does > anyone know what has changed to change this behavior? > Another interesting data point: if I become root with "su -" and run > "su -" again, I get the same problem. And I suppose this is in effect > (almost) what "sudo su -" is doing. However, using "su - <user>" for > the same user works multiple times without breaking X apps. > I might change to using "sudo -s" but this unfortunately does not set > root's environment. > > Jonathan As Michael said, there is somewhere a bug. In a different case it helped to run "xhost +local:root" to give root permission to the X server. You may run this in conjunction of "su -". Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 16:22:54 up 23:15, 17 users, 0.02, 0.11, 0.08
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