su - gedit and setenforce 0

Jim Cornette fct-cornette at insight.rr.com
Thu Jan 5 23:05:19 UTC 2006


Tomas Mraz wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:07 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>>Tomas Mraz wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>ok
>>>>>other bug/(feature?) found:
>>>>>why can't root start any x clients? gedit as root shows an error 
>>>>>connection refused by server
>>>>>(I use gedit to edit conf files )
>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Used to work before. I can confirm this issue on my rawhide box. Kindly 
>>>>file a bug report.
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>
>>>Isn't it this one?
>>>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176771
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>The report is same but disabling SELinux with setenforce 0 doesnt change 
>>the behavior of gedit on my system.
> 
> Have you done 'su -' again after setenforce 0?
> 
> 

I tried setenforce 0 followed by trying to launch gedit as Rahul 
reported with the same failure. Running su - (in a different shell) 
after setenforce 0 allows gedit to start, though it loads very slowly.

Jim




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