On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:23:15PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > Hello * > > Recently I've been getting an error I've not seen before in Gnome: when > I run Gedit from a terminal as su, I get the following: > > 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.) > > gnome.org explanations relate to redhat, with no guidance for Debian > based systems. > > I get the same thing when calling gnome's system log monitor, but not > when I call Synaptic. > > Any clues out there? >
Try running it with sux or gksu rather than just plain su; that should pass X privileges to any account you switch to -- http://pobega.wordpress.com http://identica/pobega -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org