Hi,
tried to start gparted out of an xterm with su and  pw no success. Logged in as root, xterm, gparted started. What's in this case the difference in giving as user su and pw and beeing logged in as root?

see log copied from xterm:

[joerg@linux ~]$ su
Passwort:
[root@linux joerg]# gparted
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/home.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/proc-fs-nfsd.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-0.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-42.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/var-lib-machines.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount → /dev/null.
No protocol specified

(gpartedbin:4086): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/boot.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/home.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/proc-fs-nfsd.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-0.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-42.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/var-lib-machines.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount.
[root@linux joerg]#


Kind regards



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Von: Adam Williamson <adamwill@fedoraproject.org>
An: For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases <test@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Verschickt: Mo, 28 Nov 2016 5:19 pm
Betreff: Re: F25 Workstation - Problem gparted

On Mon, 2016-11-28 at 20:41 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 11/28/16 20:33, Joerg Lechner wrote: > > can not start gparted see protocol from terminal. Does anyone know, whats to do? > > gparted will not run in a GNOME-Wayland session. > > Run GNOME in X11 to run gparted. This is because it tries to run with root privileges, right? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org