Bug#533089: gnome-terminal: Root Terminal doesn't open

[Rick Thomas]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.26.2-1
Severity: important


Under Gnome, clicking on the "root terminal" menu item causes
"Startinng Root Terminal" to appear for a while in the list of
programs at the bottom of the screen, but no root terminal
window appears, ad eventually the "Starting Root Terminal"
disappears from the list.

Normal terminal windows start just fine.

If I do "gksu gnome-terminal" from a normal window I get these messages:


rbthomas at greybox:~$ gksu gnome-terminal

** (gnome-terminal:6184): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported

Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.
rbthomas at greybox:~$ 




-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data           2.26.2-1   Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.26.0-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.9-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.80-4     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.26.2-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.20.3-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.16.2-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.5-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.24.2-1   Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                        2:1.1.0-2  X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0      0.10-1     library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                       1:0.20.5-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.2.1-1  X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.2.3-1    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                          2.26.0-1   Help browser for GNOME

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information