[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1652282 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1652282 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1652282 Xwayland not using XAUTHORITY, prevents root applications from connecting -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

I have a variation of this: pardon any imprecision here I am NOT an expert sysadmin, I am a mid-stage learning Linux enthusiast. I am running Lubuntu 16.04 on a home server and want to use VNC to vino to reach it remotely. Vino works fine - tested local and remote, *when I have the desktop of

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

"Wayland" doesn't appear to care how many bugs they have created with their philosophical decision to not allow actions like "sudo synaptic" starting a graphical application from the command line. Is there any rationale?? Thanks, Jerry -- You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

@PeterPall, why did you make bug #1551951 a duplicate of this bug? See comments 7 & 8 in bug #1551951 for explanation of why I separated all the Synaptic bugs from this bug in the first place. This bug is a generic bug stating that graphical suid applications do not work on Wayland. This is *by de

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

** Tags added: bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712089 Title: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused To manage notificatio

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Answer #2 works but needs to be used prior to any attempt to use gui for gedit. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712089 Title: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Coul

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

answer #2 worked for me. could start synaptic again on Ubuntu 17.10 Intel® Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz × 4 Intel® HD Graphics 530 (Skylake GT2) 3.26.2 64-bit -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (gedit:3053): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 ** Also affects: update-manager Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

Re: [Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

It's a bug in the individual packages, not Wayland. On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 7:05 PM steve lubbs <1712...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > A Complaint: The work-arounds given here no longer function after the > recent updates. WTF! How about fixing this requirements-related bug so I > can partition my

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

A Complaint: The work-arounds given here no longer function after the recent updates. WTF! How about fixing this requirements-related bug so I can partition my new drive? Barring that give me an Ubuntu-supported path back to 17.04 that doesn't involve my losing all my data. A Suggestion: provide a

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

> ah, the xhost command still works, even though on wayland; I didn't expect that. That's because with xhost set, apps fall back to using XWayland. At some point in the future XWayland will disappear and this hack will no longer work. Comments in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=127445

Re: [Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

ah, the xhost command still works, even though on wayland; I didn't expect that. executing the below xhost on the command line worked, so I assume the creation of the xhost.desktop file (described below) will indeed do the trick. thanks! On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 01:23:12PM -, jervin wrote:

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Re comment #21, according to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451 "GEdit now (on Gnome 3.24) has a mode where it can transparently edit files with root permissions without running as root." However I've not been able to find any trace of that in the GEdit included with Ubuntu 17.10

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

sudo gedit fstab Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (gedit:17700): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

** Information type changed from Public to Public Security -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712089 Title: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Conn

Re: [Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Thanks a lot! I've got a script that I run on each login to fix that. On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 8:01 PM Mark <1712...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451 there > are no plans for Wayland to support running graphical applications as > root so

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

According to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451 there are no plans for Wayland to support running graphical applications as root so that bug has been closed as WONTFIX. The correct fix is for Synaptic, and other graphical apps needing root, to be rewritten to run the GUI as a norma

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Got this warning message on "dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration": $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration [sudo] password for artful: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyCannot open display ":0" Your console font configuration will be updated the next time your system boots. If you want to

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

** Description changed: - The full list of pkexec'ed applications is located in bug 1713313. It is - long. + List of pkexec'ed applications is located in bug 1713313. + List of packages which use su-to-root and gksu/gksudo is located in bug 1713311. + -

Re: [Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Affects Bleachbit too. Ubuntu 11.10 vanilla gnome-session. On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 6:25 AM Norbert <1712...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > @matej > please describe when and why GNU Octave needs root access. > You can post answer here, or mark bug 1713313 as affecting Octave package > (use "Also affe

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

@matej please describe when and why GNU Octave needs root access. You can post answer here, or mark bug 1713313 as affecting Octave package (use "Also affects distribution/package" link) with corresponding comment. ** Description changed: + The full list of pkexec'ed applications is located in b

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Ubuntu 17.10 beta installed on 6.10.2017: Still the same problem, not only with synaptic but also octave wouldn't work properly, gave similar error. Solution was, as posted by dino99 to type: xhost +si:localuser:root. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Ubuntu 17.10 with all updates, bug is not fixed. Still can't use Synaptic on Wayland. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712089 Title: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Debian report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872553 ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #872553 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872553 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https:/

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

@PeterPall (peterpall) The full list of pkexec'ed applications is located in bug 1713313. It is long. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712089 Title: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnab

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

In artful the problem seems no more be limited to wayland, but to extend to all kinds of gnome session. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712089 Title: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUna

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

** Description changed: Posting here what gnome says about porting to wayland, and their tests: GNOME Applications under Wayland GTK+ has a Wayland backend. If it was enabled at compile-time, you can run a GTK+ application under Wayland simply by: GDK_BACKEND=wayland gnome-calculato

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

** Description changed: + Posting here what gnome says about porting to wayland, and their tests: + + GNOME Applications under Wayland + GTK+ has a Wayland backend. If it was enabled at compile-time, you can run a GTK+ application under Wayland simply by: + + GDK_BACKEND=wayland gnome-calculato

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Just installed Artful x86 on USB-flash. Without xhost commands Synaptic does not start with $ synaptic-pkexec No protocol specified Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (synaptic:1688): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 After setting xhost Synaptic starts. Gparted

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Just installed Artful x86 on USB-flash. Without xhost commands Synaptic does not start with $ synaptic-pkexec No protocol specified Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused (synaptic:1688): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 After setting xhost Synaptic starts. As I p

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

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[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

@John a more sophisticated workaround: https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/108631/running-command-after-gnome-login/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1712089 Title: Invalid MIT-M

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Discussed on Debian mailing list: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1541135.html (Xwayland authorization not configured) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Annoying -- the developers over at Fedora seem to suggest that there is an unwillingness to provide support for any GUI that runs as root. Surely a problem for many admin tools like this? Workaround is easy though: command-line: xhost + && sudo synaptic && xhost - Probably there is something sim

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Thanks for your report. This is a known issue with wayland and documented on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Wayland_problems#Graphical_applications_can.27t_be_run_as_root_from_terminal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Thanks for your report. This is a known issue with wayland and documented on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_debug_Wayland_problems#Graphical_applications_can.27t_be_run_as_root_from_terminal ** Tags added: wayland ** Changed in: synaptic (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Chang

[Bug 1712089] Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

Workaround typed into a terminal: xhost +si:localuser:root then 'sudo synaptic' works as usual ** Description changed: With the today packages upgrade, switching from X11 to wayland, synaptic refuse to load/open: from the icon into the dash-to-dock, nothing happen from the terminal: