Re: Nautilus not able to run as root?

["Michał Majchrowicz" <mmajchrowicz gmail com>]

Hi,
Thanks I will keep an eye on this bug entry :)
Regards Michal.

On 4/20/07, Christian Kirbach <christian kirbach googlemail com> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:46:05 +0200, Jürg Billeter <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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