Re: Nautilus not able to run as root?

["Błażej Ślusarek" <blazej 86 gmail com>]

I'm experiencing exactly the same problem, and I know at least 3 other
people who also do. This is really annoying, because e.g. I have no
access to save / open dialog in certain applications.

On 4/20/07, Michał Majchrowicz <mmajchrowicz gmail com> wrote:
> This is strace for my case. It was reported to my that on many
> machines it looks similiar:
> rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0
> poll([{fd=15, events=POLLOUT, revents=POLLOUT}], 1, 0) = 1
> write(15, "\0", 1)                      = 1
> write(15, "AUTH EXTERNAL 30\r\n", 18)   = 18
> poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1
> read(15, "OK 4f416f936c678b996435c00046261"..., 2048) = 37
> poll([{fd=15, events=POLLOUT, revents=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1
> write(15, "BEGIN\r\n", 7)               = 7
> poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT, revents=POLLOUT}], 1, -1) = 1
> writev(15, [{"l\1\0\1\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0n\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org/fre"...,
> 128}, {"", 0}], 2) = 128
> gettimeofday({1177021357, 781013}, NULL) = 0
> poll([{fd=15, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLIN|POLLHUP}], 1, 25000) = 1
> read(15, "", 2048)                      = 0
> close(15)                               = 0
> futex(0x81b9a28, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL <unfinished ...>
> I had to do Ctrl+C to stop it :( It happens on many computers (I am
> net Administrator) wich I tested. Different CPU's and all other stuff.
> And it also affects 2.18 version :(
> Regards Michal.
>
> On 4/20/07, Michał Majchrowicz <mmajchrowicz gmail com> wrote:
> > The problem doesn't occur when you run X as root. But when you do su/sudo.
> >
> > On 4/20/07, Mark <markg85 gmail com> wrote:
> > > i`m not having any problems.. and i`m running nautilus alot on the root
> > > account.
> > > i`m running Fedora Rawhile (core 7) but it`s the same with Fedora Core 6
> > >
> > >
> > > 2007/4/20, Michał Majchrowicz <mmajchrowicz gmail com>:
> > > >
> > > > Hi.
> > > > I noticed (on many different machines) that nautilus cannot be run by
> > > > root. Is it expected behaviour? When I am logged as user ( i.e.) john
> > > > then when I do run in console nautilus window pops up (as expected).
> > > > But when I do something like this:
> > > > su
> > > > Enter root password
> > > > nautilus
> > > > Nothing happens :( The program just hangs...
> > > > Please tell me why it is like this?
> > > > Regards Michal.
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