Bug 158593 – net-wireless/wifi-radar-1.9.6-r1 - Could not open display.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Don Pellegrino 2006-12-19 14:45:40 UTC]

After "emerge wifi-radar" I followed the emerge output instructions to add /usr/sbin/wifi-radar to my /etc/sudoers file.  I am able to run wifi-radar as root with no problems.  When I try to run /usr/bin/wifi-radar.sh as a user I get "GtkWarning: could not open display"  Is there another configuration parameters I must change to allow users to run wifi-radar.sh?

[Comment 1 Don Pellegrino 2006-12-19 14:47:15 UTC]

Created attachment 104397 [details]
Output from wifi-radar.sh run as a user.

[Comment 2 Don Pellegrino 2006-12-19 14:48:08 UTC]

Created attachment 104398 [details]
Output from my emerge --info command.

[Comment 3 Mickael Paris 2007-01-04 05:08:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=104397) [edit]
> Output from wifi-radar.sh run as a user.
> 

EDit the /etc/sudoers file, and comment this line :
# Defaults      env_reset

After that add this line :
Defaults      env_keep=DISPLAY

I'm not a specialist of sudo, so i'm sure that comment the line "Defaults      env_reset" is absolutely necessary, but it's work for me.

[Comment 4 Mickael Paris 2007-01-04 05:17:57 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Created an attachment (id=104397) [edit]
> > Output from wifi-radar.sh run as a user.
> > 
> 
> EDit the /etc/sudoers file, and comment this line :
> # Defaults      env_reset
> 
> After that add this line :
> Defaults      env_keep=DISPLAY
> 
> I'm not a specialist of sudo, so i'm sure that comment the line "Defaults     
> env_reset" is absolutely necessary, but it's work for me.
> 
Excuse me I would like to say : I'm NOT sure....

[Comment 5 Michele Noberasco (RETIRED) 2007-03-14 15:34:37 UTC]

Added some more einfos in latest package version to propose the other changes stated here to /etc/sudoers...