Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3261 mails)

[Landy Roman <landie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

but why should he do that to open a simple
term

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 14:13:14 -0700
Ben Rosenberg <ben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * 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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