On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:02:55PM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote: > On 05/31/2011 02:18 PM, Agustin Martin wrote: > > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 08:57:27PM +0430, Eliad Bagherzadegan wrote: > >> Package: wdm > >> Version: 1.28-6 > >> Severity: important > >> > >> The title pretty much says it. > > > > Thanks for your info, but more details are really needed. > > > > I cannot reproduce that problem here in my i386 box when run from a xterm. > > Some questions, > > > > * Did you try with a different display manager? When you noticed the > > problem? > > Any other relevant change aroud that time? > > * Did you call synaptic from a xterm or from a pull-down menu? Does it fail > > when called both ways? > > * Is only synaptic which fails? > > * Which error did you see? Any relevant info under /var/log? > > > > Thanks for your feedback, > > > Sorry for the delay. I had upgraded some packages and did not have keyboard > and mouse on X. > > synaptic works perfectly with slim/openbox, from menu and from lxterminal. > Running wdm/openbox,I get this error message in lxterminal: > # synaptic > No protocol specified > > (synaptic:20554): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 > > ---------------- > I've noticed that this only happens when an X application is going to be run > as root. For example I could run gedit as a user, but got the same error when > I tried o run it as root.
Are you exporting XAUTHORITY from user account before becoming root? -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qa-packages-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110620091948.ga3...@agmartin.aq.upm.es
