Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Kevin Breit <battery841@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 30 March 2001 05:56 am, you wrote:
> When trying to do anything from the KDE control panel it fails.  I click
> the 'root' button and it reverts to the wizard again.
>
> Giving yast2 to a root command line has this effect...
>
>
> 10:28:20 /# yast2 &
> [1] 2390
> 12:49:55 /# Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> y2controlcenter: cannot connect to X server :0
This means that you're on the wrong user.  It seems like you're using X as 
mortal user and then starting YaST2 as root.  This fails becuase root can't 
get access to the other users X terminal.   Make sure you have kdesu 
installed.
Luck
Kevin Breit