Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Ben Rosenberg <ben@xxxxxxxxx>]

* Kevin Breit (battery841@xxxxxxxxxxxx) [010401 14:08]:
=>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.

Open a terminal and type this:

sux -

then type the root password....you can execute any program as root in
XF4.x this way.

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