Yes, I'm using opensuse 11.1 with gnome gui and I'm running gedit from within a gnome-terminal. Aside from using "su -", what exactly was the cause of the error messages and what do they mean? Thanks Carlos E. R.-2 wrote:
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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.
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