Bug#633652: fixed in dbus 1.4.12-5

2011-07-18 Thread jidanni
> "SM" == Simon McVittie writes: SM> The long-term solution for this is probably to stop running X applications as root Root not allowed to use emacs? I'm telling my mom. And I recall synaptic and some other tools are exclusively for root. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-req

Bug#633652: fixed in dbus 1.4.12-5

2011-07-18 Thread Simon McVittie
reopen 633652 retitle 633652 Gtk applications (emacs, iceweasel) no longer start under su to root thanks On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 at 21:14:24 +0100, bob dickerson wrote: > then I tested from an xterm su-ed to root. I tested with: > xterm, xclock, iceweasel and emacs. The xterm and xclock > worked but

Bug#633652: fixed in dbus 1.4.12-5

2011-07-17 Thread bob dickerson
In the mail from Simon McVittie he states that the bug #633652 is fixed and closed by the new version of the package dbus_1.4.12-5_amd64.deb and its friends. I immediately upgraded both a Debian unstable and a Debian testing. Both systems got a new version of dbus: root@sally:/home/bob# dpkg -l