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I seem to be having two issues with sudo in it's default setup under |
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catalyst. I'm not quite sure if this is a configuration problem or a |
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known issue. If I start up terminal and from the command line type sudo |
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su - I get the following message: |
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Fatal server error. |
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Server is already active for display 0 |
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If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start |
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again |
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After a few seconds it drops me to the proper command prompt, after that |
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if I drop back to the regular user shell and try it again then there is |
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no error and it works fine. |
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The second is if I try to launch any graphical application from a |
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command line such as ethereal I get the following error: |
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Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: |
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But if I simply su to root and execute ethereal it works perfectly. I |
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have searched several forums on this one, and most of the posts just say |
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"well some programs don't run right as root". Ethereal on the other hand |
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requires special permissions to handle the network interfaces and should |
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be run with sudo, so I doubt that is the problem. |
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Thoughts? |
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