gksu problem

[scienzia]

I installed debian from scratch. Everything is fine, except that I can't run any appliation that needs root access with gksu.
Here is the error I have:

@:/tmp$ gksu xterm
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "list" command
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user.
The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted
in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the
program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable.
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s


If I login as root, and try "gksu -u myuser xterm" I get the same error.

Thanks in advance

 

[stefanwagner]

perhaps you have to edit the Xservers file?

locate Xservers
(/etc/.../Xservers)

(only guessing)

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[scienzia]

These are the files (I removed the comments):

/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers :

:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp


/etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers :

:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp

 

[scienzia]

...installed sux...

now it's fine