On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:15:19 -0400 gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
[snip] > gene@coyote:/usr/local/bin$ pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not > connect: Connection refused > Failed to initialize GTK. > > Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. > Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without > root permission > > which might work if it wasn't for the invalid magic cookie, so how do > I get an accceptable version of that? > No one's really broken down that initial error message. I think it's some sort of red herring. I don't think it's actually a "magic cookie" thing. I suspect something else is going on. For example, it also says it can't initialize GTK. Why? Does Synaptic rely on GTK libraries which aren't present? I don't know the answer; I'm just asking questions. And what server is it unable to "init"? Can you run other GUI apps with sudo? Unfortunately, I on Xorg, so I can test what you're talking about. Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog: http://noferblatz.com Company Site: http://quillandmouse.com Software Projects: https://gitlab.com/paulmfoster
