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    Adept only start from root terminal

    Adept refuse to open since I've upgraded kubuntu from 7.04 to 7.10.
    From the start menu, it asks for the password and after... ... ... nothing happens. Adept is working great though if I open it from a superuser terminal. From a standard terminal with "sudo", it doesn't work either, failing the connection with X server. It seems that the sudo user doesn't have the rights to connect to X... But other apps which requires admin rights are running properly.

    I've tried a "apt-get --reinstall adept", but it changes nothing.

    Any ideas?
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    Re: Adept only start from root terminal

    Correction, I have the same problem for all gui apps which requires root rights. The issue is not an "Adept" issue but a more general one.
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      Re: Adept only start from root terminal

      Originally posted by gogh
      It seems that the sudo user doesn't have the rights to connect to X... But other apps which requires admin rights are running properly.
      sudo doesn't have rights to X, but kdesu does. When in a terminal, and you desire to launch a GUI application, you need to use kdesu application, not sudo application.
      Windows no longer obstructs my view.
      Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
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        Re: Adept only start from root terminal

        True. His problem seems to be that kdesu(do) isn't opening Adept, however...
        Could be caused by using sudo where kdesu(do) should've been used.

        Try opening Konsole and executing "kdesu adept_manager". See what it says.
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          Re: Adept only start from root terminal

          Same problem with kdesu :

          ~$ kdesu adept_manager
          passprompt
          Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
          Xlib:
          No protocol specified
          adept_manager: cannot connect to X server :0.0
          ~$
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            Re: Adept only start from root terminal

            Yeah, something got screwed up somewhere... Try "mv ~/.Xauthority ~/.Xauthority~" and hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. (This'll end your session, so save anything that needs to be saved.) See if that fixes it. (Actually, you may need to reboot, rather than just restart the X server...)
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              Re: Adept only start from root terminal

              Originally posted by SheeEttin
              Yeah, something got screwed up somewhere... Try "mv ~/.Xauthority ~/.Xauthority~" and hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. (This'll end your session, so save anything that needs to be saved.) See if that fixes it. (Actually, you may need to reboot, rather than just restart the X server...)
              I've tried this but I still have the same problem even after reboot
              Other ideas?
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                Re: Adept only start from root terminal

                Well, thanks for your help. If someone cares, this behaviour was already reported in ubuntu bug database as bug #144722 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...do/+bug/144722
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