Cannot use gksu anymore

[Member kaye]

Hello Friends!

I used to be able to open as root my preferred file manager, spacefm, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Space and typing ‘gksu spacefm’

Now I get this message instead.

Failed to run spacefm as user root.

Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file.

I must have messed up my system.

Any way to fix this?

I can still open spacefm as root by typing in the terminal: sudo spacefm

Thank you!

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1. Open a terminal (it should open in your home directory)
2. Do:
touch .Xauthority
This should fix it.

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[Member kaye]

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It did not. I still get the same error.

I don’t know if this is related, but when I execute celluloid in terminal, I get

** (io.github.celluloid_player.Celluloid:9281): ERROR **: 22:34:38.702: Failed to open temporary input config file
Trace/breakpoint trap

That’s the last line among several lines of message. I can’t copy everything here because I get this message in the web browser:

A potentially unsafe operation has been detected in your request to this site

Your access to this service has been limited. (HTTP response code 403)

Maybe I should just do a fresh os install.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by kaye.

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I suspect .Xauthority has been deleted somehow in your home folder. Check to see if you still have it there.

If you run
gksudo spacefm
does it work?

If it does, you will have a new .Xauthority file in your home folder, but it will be owned by root. To have your user own it, you have to:
sudo chown username:username ~/.Xauthority
where user is the name of your user. If you user is kaye, it would look like:
sudo chown kaye:kaye ~/.Xauthority

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gksudo spacefm

does not work. Same error.

/home/kaye/.Xauthority

is still there.

I executed this:

sudo chown kaye:kaye ~/.Xauthority

Still the same error message.

It looks like a lot of things are affected. If I open a libreoffice-calc .ods file, I get this:

The lock file could not be created for exclusive access by LibreOffice, due to missing permission to create a lock file on that file location or lack of free disk space.

Maybe it would be easier to just re-install everything.

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Did you login to desktop as root?

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[Member kaye]

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I don’t think I logged in to desktop as root. I don’t know how to do so.

[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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Is your /home directory full?

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How about typing the output of this in a terminal

ls -la

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/home directory:

$ inxi -p
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 14.70 GiB used: 4.99 GiB (33.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda8 
  ID-2: /home size: 1.91 GiB used: 542.0 MiB (27.8%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda9 

Output of

ls -la

drwxr-xr-x  3 kaye kaye   4096 Apr 23 16:22  .masterpdfeditor
drwxr-xr-x  2 kaye kaye   4096 Dec 23 19:57  .mcthemes
drwx------  6 kaye kaye   4096 Apr  3 22:00  .mozilla
-rw-r--r--  1 kaye kaye    123 May 25 10:36  .mtpaint
drwxr-xr-x  2 kaye kaye   4096 Mar 26 20:45  Music
-rw-r--r--  1 kaye kaye  25149 Apr 11  2019  .nanorc
drwxr-xr-x  2 kaye kaye   4096 Dec 23 19:57  .newsboat
drwxr-xr-x  2 kaye kaye   4096 May 26 19:53  Pictures
drwx------  3 kaye kaye   4096 Apr 21 18:49  .pki
-rw-r--r--  1 kaye kaye    807 Apr 18  2019  .profile
-rw-------  1 kaye kaye    256 Apr 21 17:43  .pulse-cookie
-rw-------  1 kaye kaye   1326 May 18 19:05  .recently-used
drwx------  4 kaye kaye   4096 May 11 23:23  .run
-rw-r--r--  1 kaye kaye  11921 May 13  2009  .smb.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 kaye kaye   8104 Apr 26  2009  .smbnetfs.conf
drwxr-xr-x  5 kaye kaye   4096 May 10 01:15  .ssr
lrwxrwxrwx  1 kaye kaye     29 Apr 21 17:42  .steampath -> /home/kaye/.steam/sdk32/steam
lrwxrwxrwx  1 kaye kaye     27 Apr 21 17:42  .steampid -> /home/kaye/.steam/steam.pid
-rw-r--r--  1 kaye kaye 359014 May 27 21:38  testdisk.log
drwx------  3 kaye kaye   4096 Mar 26 20:45  .thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x  2 kaye kaye   4096 Mar 26 21:54  Videos
drwxr-xr-x  2 kaye kaye   4096 May 26 23:48  .winff
-rw-------  1 kaye kaye     51 May 28 23:29  .Xauthority
drwxr-xr-x  4 kaye kaye   4096 Mar 29 20:18  .xmms
-rw-r--r--  1 kaye kaye    172 May 25 03:08  .Xresources
drwxr-xr-x  2 kaye kaye   4096 May  2 02:10  .zsnes

I found out I also cannot create files nor folders anywhere:

Cannot create temporary directory

that’s a popup message.

I’m wondering is this had anything to do with my installation of some epson apps, like this one

iscan-bundle-1.0.4.x64.deb.tar.gz

It encountered some errors during the installation process but I was able to use the scanner anyway, so I thought nothing of it.

Also, I’m now switched to Space-JWM desktop, and I’m not seeing any Space-IceWM. Is this normal? I’ve always used Space-IceWM in antiX.

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Is this a core or net install? You are missing lots of directories, files from that ls -la output

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anticapitalista wrote:

Is this a core or net install? You are missing lots of directories, files from that ls -la output

kaye probably only copied the last section in terminal.

I think anticapitalista’s suspicions may be right.
When using sudo spacefm do/did you move files/folders or execute programs inside your home folder? It is very likely that many things have changed permissions.
Try this in terminal:
find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f
It will take some time for the command to execute if there are a lot of files in your home folder. Be patient. If the command stops without any output, report back. If something does come out, paste the result here.

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When I executed ls -la , there’s a big empty space before any output came out. Please see attached file.

The result of

find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f

is this:

kaye@laptop:~
$ find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f
kaye@laptop:~
$

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   ls_la.jpg
   

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Hello!

So I decided to just re-install the operating system. I haven’t done anything significant except install seamonkey browser, edited /etc/fstab, and added my own theme to /usr/share/icewm/themes

Yet when I tried to install libreoffice-base in Synaptic….please see attached file.

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Use the package installer app.

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