syanptic

[jack]

On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 19:07 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> jack wrote:
> > Error copying '/home/jack/.Xauthority' to '/tmp/libgksu-zf78fX':
> > Permission denied
> >
> > I'm logged into flux as a normal user, but a few days ago I logged into
> > flux as root and was wondering if that may have had something to do
> > with this.
> 
> Check the permissions of /home/jack/.Xauthority - probably it is readable 
> by root only. Change it with
> 
> sudo chown jack:jack /home/jack/.Xauthority
> 
> and next time use gksu instead of sudo to run fluxbox as root.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
Good call, Nils. A simple chown did it. I usually don't run flux as
root; I happened to be on the system locally a few days back doing a
little maintenance, and wanted to look something up right quick in ff...
That's what I get for launching without thinking.

Regards,

Jack