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Old 20th May 2012, 04:44 PM
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Gedit error messages

Does anyone know why using gedit as root to edit selinux config file return these error messages, and how to fix this?

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

(gedit:1821): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.5ZVLEW': No such file or directory

(gedit:1821): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

(gedit:1821): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.0X7AEW': No such file or directory

(gedit:1821): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory

(gedit:1821): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.NTZNEW': No such file or directory

(gedit:1821): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or directory
[root@Hewjr ~]#


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Old 20th May 2012, 05:20 PM
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Re: Gedit error messages

Try

Code:
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touch /root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
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Old 20th May 2012, 05:24 PM
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Re: Gedit error messages

I think it is related to the fact that under Fedora there is no desktop root session.
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Old 20th May 2012, 06:26 PM
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Re: Gedit error messages

Ok then what desktop editor coulb be used, if any?

Henry

---------- Post added at 01:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:15 PM ----------

[Henry@Hewjr ~]$ su
Password:
[root@Hewjr Henry]# touch /root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
touch: cannot touch `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': No such file or directory
[root@Hewjr Henry]#

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Old 20th May 2012, 06:32 PM
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Re: Gedit error messages

Try
Code:
su
mkdir -p /root/.local/share/
touch /root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
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Old 20th May 2012, 07:04 PM
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Re: Gedit error messages

Yellowman that worked ok.

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