Bug 164451 – gnome-base/gnome-terminal does not start as "root"

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Armin Mohring 2007-01-29 19:52:15 UTC]

If I want to start the gnome terminal 2.16.1 from the atskbar directly into the superuser mode, no terminal is starting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.taskbar
2.start gnome terminal in to superuser mode
3.no terminal does open

Actual Results:  
no terminal is starting

Expected Results:  
gnome terminal start in superuser mode.

[Comment 1 Armin Mohring 2007-01-29 19:57:18 UTC]

Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64)
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System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
Last Sync: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:20:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fix-packages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/gentoo/ rsync://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/gentoo/ rsync://gentoo.intergenia.de/gentoo-linux/ rsync://ftp.belnet.be/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/gentoo/ rsync://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/gentoo/ rsync://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.lug.ro/gentoo/ rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.rhnet.is/gentoo/ rsync://mirror.hamakor.org.il/gentoo/"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j1 -s"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X a52 aac aiglx alsa alsa_cards_intel_8x0 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cups dbus dlloader dri dts dvd dvdr elibc_glibc encode esd firefox ftp gif glibc-omitfp gnome gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 java javascript jpeg kernel_linux ldap libg++ linguas_en mad mikmod mp3 mpeg mpeg2 ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spl ssl tcpd truetpye truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_nv vorbis wxGTK x264 xml xorg xv xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-01-29 20:39:28 UTC]

How exactly are you trying to do this?

[Comment 3 Armin Mohring 2007-01-30 01:41:28 UTC]

(Gnome icon) Applications,Acessoiries, Root terminal.

[Comment 4 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-01-30 18:51:46 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 158469 ***