GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 323502
Unable to use sudo to start firestarter
Last modified: 2011-12-06 06:15:36 UTC
Please describe the problem: I am unable to start firestarter using sudo as described in the documentation. I have no problems starting it as root however. I receive the error "(firestarter:2841): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:" and firestarter never opens when attempting with sudo. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open a terminal 2. Add the appropriate (edited of coarse) line to your /etc/sudoers file 3. run sudo firestarter from a command line Actual results: I receive the error: "(firestarter:2841): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:" and firestarter never opens". Expected results: firestarter GUI opens. Does this happen every time? yes. Other information:
I'd like to add that I have the exact same problem on SuSE 10.1. If anyone would like to help me troubleshoot this I would be very appreciative. aim: leetwankerJ msn: leetwanker@hotmail.com email: leetwanker@gmail.com Thanks Doc
There seems to be a bug in /etc/sudoers. I've written an article that describes a work around: http://www.howtoadvice.com/AutoFirestarter/ Ultimately, we should lobby for Firestarter's development team to abstract our desired behavior (of launching the Firestarter status icon upon login) to a check box in its preferences menu. Lonnie Lee Best
firestarter development has been stalled and it has been unmaintained for a few years now. I contacted Tomas Junnonen (majix@iki.fi) because he is listed as Developer on project page but didn't get any response. I found firestarter on fedora wiki [1] under deprecated packages so i am closing all the bugs as WONTFIX. Please feel free to reopen the bugs in future if anyone takes the responsibility for active development. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Deprecated_packages