Re: Nautilus not able to run as root?

[Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach googlemail com>]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:46:05 +0200, J�lleter <j bitron ch> wrote:

> > su
> > Enter root password
> > nautilus
> > Nothing happens :( The program just hangs...
> > Please tell me why it is like this?
>
> That's because there is no dbus session daemon for root running. You
> should be able to start nautilus by using dbus-launch; I don't know
> whether that's the recommended solution, though.

for your information: I filed this as bug 390170 in bugzilla

Usually the login scripts take care of setting up a proper dbus session.
I am not sure whether is has any strong impact if nautilus was able to
run without a dbus session hook.


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