On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 01:42:25 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >>> I can not run two applications w/ gksu: >>> >>> chromium and >>> >>> qbittorrent >>> >>> w/ the error: >>> >>> Couldn't set environment variable... >> >>Is it only happening with just that two programs? > > For a new user it works too, but for the old one - all work except these > two. I have searched through dir.s and files that were created for the > new user (its home dir. was empty and did remove the appropriate dir.s > in the home dir. of the problematic user - did not solve the problem. > > The dir.s were, IIRC: > > .dbus > .gconf > .gconfd > > Any other dir/file suggestion?
You can try to reboot. Strange things can happen when gnome is updated and some files are still in use. >>Try adding the "debug" parameter: >> >>gksu -d chromium >>gksu -d qbittorrent > > $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/chromium May I ask why are you giving the full path to both binaries? :-? Also, try to run gksu as root user. (...) > [23477:23477:49752580053:FATAL:browser_main.cc(1362)] Check failed: > PathService::Get(chrome::DIR_USER_DATA, &user_data_dir). Must be able to > get user data directory! Aborted (...) > $ /usr/bin/gksu -d -u usrname /usr/bin/qbittorrent (..) > buf: -gksu: waiting Couldn't set environment variable... > > > So, both can not get access to the required user's environment - for > some reason. Let's see what are the perms of the user "~/.config" directory: ls -la | grep config Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.11.24.19.08...@gmail.com