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Bug 598188 - editing a text file belonging to root
editing a text file belonging to root
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 555745
Product: gedit
Classification: Applications
Component: general
2.26.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-10-12 18:48 UTC by bzb.dev001
Modified: 2009-10-17 23:36 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description bzb.dev001 2009-10-12 18:48:12 UTC 
'su' to root account and used gedit to edit a text file belonging to root account causes the following messages to the console.

GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)
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When I use gedit to edit the same text file (owned by root) using a non root account, the above messages does not appear.
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2009-10-13 11:41:27 UTC 
See bug 555745.
Comment 2 Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (nacho) 2009-10-17 23:36:16 UTC 
As Christian says it is a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 555745 ***