On Monday, March 6, 2017 11:13:59 AM CET Joachim Backes wrote:
Hi,
seeing coincidentally that some X11 applications with sudo under GNOME/Wayland will fail:
For example:
- sudo xterm
No protocol specified Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user. The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable. xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: %s
- sudo gnome-terminal
No protocol specified Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:
Running the same under Gnome/Xorg executes properly.
Anybody sees this too?
Kind regards
Joachim Backes
Hey Joachim,
Could you supply us with some more information, like: - The output of `echo $DISPLAY` - Verbose output of you're display manager - The version of the software you are using(Gnome, xorg and gdm)
Can you also answer a few extra questions such as: - Are you running the program from a vtty or a terminal inside your desktop environment(If yes what terminal are you using?) - Can you supply us with a list of the applications that do not work and could you also try running them trough `gnome-do`?
I will await your answer.