Working fine! But I wonder how in some machines(with the same ubuntu 14.04 LTS) just the 'sudo gedit ' command works ok. Anyway, thanks a lot. :)
ARGHYA BASAK Roll No. - ME13M006 M.Tech, Mechanical Engineering Department IIT Madras On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Filip Sohajek <filip.soha...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's not a bug. SuperUser has no XDG_RUNTIME_DIR variable set. To fix it, > replace sudo gedit call with > pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY gedit > > > ** Changed in: pam-xdg-support (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Invalid > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1330154 > > Title: > sudo not working in ubuntu > > Status in “pam-xdg-support” package in Ubuntu: > Invalid > > Bug description: > when I try sudo gedit the command does not work. > following is a sample output in terminal > > arghya@arg-u2:~$ sudo gedit /etc/hosts > [sudo] password for arghya: > error: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set in the environment. > > (gedit:11805): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > arghya@arg-u2:~$ > > pardon me for being a linux newbie. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam-xdg-support/+bug/1330154/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1330154 Title: sudo not working in ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pam-xdg-support/+bug/1330154/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs