Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gconf
Since Ubuntu 8.10 (I've tried it in 8.10 and 9.04 alpha5) there is a very strange bug. If you set a root password (e.g. with command sudo passwd root) and then log in to root in a terminal using command su a lot of GNOME applications start from this root session with an error like this: 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 NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.) For example, gedit and firefox. But if you log in into root session with command sudo su everything works perfectly. To be honest, I can't understand difference between su and sudo su. Yes, I extremely well know, that using sudo instead of root account is safer and preferable BUT sometimes it's better and easier to use root account. ** Affects: gconf (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server using root user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336660 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gconf in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
