Bug#395462: gksu: cannot open display when using password from keyring

Bart Vanhaute bart_vanhaute_ at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 31 22:03:03 CET 2006


On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:53 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
> Em Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:20:31 +0100
> Bart Vanhaute <bart_vanhaute_ at hotmail.com> escreveu:
> 
> > The bug about not being able to open display only occurs when the
> > password is retreived from the gnome keyring. If I do not store the
> > password, and type it in each time when doing the gksu, there is no
> > problem connecting to the display.
> 
> hmmm, this is interesting. Does it work if you remove the key from the
> keyring explicitely and let gksu readd it?
> 


This is exactly what I did to get it working again : I opened the
gnome-keyring-manager program and explicitly removed the password.

But it also works if the password was never in the keyring in the first
place.

Bart.








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