Wierd behaviour when invoking Gedit from root terminal

[FSLLL]

Every time I invoke gedit from the root terminal I get:-

[AnOther@FSLServer ~]$ su
Password:
[root@FSLServer AnOther]# gedit

(gedit:6447): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported

followed by 33 occurrences of:-
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

gedit opens fine but it seems really odd.

My exposure to linux is not vast but this has never happened before Fedora12

It doesn't happen if I just use the terminal as an ordinary user.

It also has nothing to do with the Bad & Ugly Gstreamer plugins as this happened from the moment the system was installed from the DVD and before the plugins were loaded even after removing them and rebooting I still get the ream of GConf errors if I start Gedit after su,

[mouse_runner]

same here:

pls look to the differences:

localhost ~]$ su
Password:              
[root@localhost name]# gedit
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)

BUT,,, when you do:

@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# gedit

the error stays away

Edit: this seems to be a known bug.

it has something to do with

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.conf

[stoat]

Hello everybody,

That also does not happen with sudo gedit. Anyway, I have noticed what you described for a long time. I have always ignored it.

[mouse_runner]

i have never noticed it, since i am using su -,, instaed of su
must confess that i am curious about the reason of the error, and the solution

[DBelton]

since 'su' does not actually give you a root login shell, and 'su -' does, then the behaviour is top be expected. without a login shell a lot of environment variables (like USERand LOGNAME) don't get set and remain set for whatever other user you were signed in as.