Re: [opensuse] Edit a file with gedit as root causes error messages



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On Tuesday, 2009-04-28 at 12:09 -0700, buzlite wrote:

When I su to root to edit a text file, I received the following message in
the console. Could someone give some insight?
Thanks

$ su
Password:
# gedit /etc/wvdial.conf

(gedit:4437): 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

Which openSUSE version are you using?

Are you doing that inside gnome?

Try using "su -" instead.

- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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