Ubuntu :: Nautlius Open As Root Script?
Mar 22, 2011
Here is simple solution if you don't want to log in as root all the time to edit files while in Nautilus. Just open the text editor and add this
[Code]..
I added a link to my top panel to have easy access to the script. If you have the default settings for nautilus if will always ask if you want to open the file in the text editor or run the script. you can disable this open if you like. Its under Edit>Preferences then choose the Behavior tab. The option is under Executable text files. As usual if this post is in an inappropriate location feel free to move it.
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Mar 27, 2010
I am experiencing a bug when overwriting files on FTP servers using the default nautilus FTP client.When I upload a file to replace an existing file via FTP, after I confirm the prompt asking me to overwrite, the content of the newly uploaded file is appended to the existing file's contents. The resulting file contains the content from both files. In order to fix this bug, I am forced to delete the existing file before uploading the new file.If I upload the same file multiple times, the error will continue to occur and append the new file to the existing file.
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Feb 19, 2011
I was using the latest stable release of Debian, dual-booted alongside Windows Vista, with the GNOME desktop, installed via netinst, trying to build and install a library that I knew and trusted, when suddenly I couldn't open the Root Terminal. I clicked the link (in Applications->Accessories (I think, whatever the top one is)->Root Terminal), and in the taskbar I saw an item that said "Starting Root Terminal". A few seconds later, that went away, but the terminal still wasn't open. I tried the regular user terminal, to see the same thing happen. Unsure of what was happening, I tried restarting my computer, since that's always the first step you should take in computer problems.
When I restarted, GNOME wouldn't start. The screen would flash a bit for a few seconds, then a dialog box would appear over a background of static that said "The greeter application is crashing. Attempting another one...".t would then go back to the DOS-style kernel, wait a second, and then the same thing would happen. After several of that, I would get a blue screen which said something to the effect of "It has been detected that the desktop environment has crashed six times in the past 30 seconds.
Waiting two minutes before trying again." When it did that, I tried logging in as root to assess the problem. I gave it the correct password, but it said that it was an incorrect login. After several tries (to ensure I didn't mistype the password), I logged in as myself. Same problem. I tried the su command, with the correct password, and it said it couldn't authorise it.
After a lengthy conversation with a friend of mine who was very good with computers, he basically summarised that he had no clue, but that his best guess would be a virus. Upon running the Linux installer, I found the Repair option. Not being particularly familiar with Linux, I used it simply to backup my important files onto a flash drive. I then tried running the Install option, in an attempt to simply write over my existing Linux and make it new again. The installer, however, consistently froze up when trying to start the partitioner, on the "Checking disks..." stage. I figured it was a problem with my partition. In my naivete, I simply used the Windows tools to clear that partition... It destroyed GRUB too, so I couldn't run any OS. I figured my computer was pretty well screwed, and at that point just decided to bring it into the shop and have them completely wipe it.
my computer was backed up onto an external hard driven I brought it back, I reinstalled Windows. Upon restart, it said that it was still looking for GRUB, which made no sense to me. After messing around with it a bit, I decided to just reinstall Linux too. To my lack of surprise, that fixed the problem. Both OS' now ran just fine. The first thing I did on Debian was to install the Clam Anti-Virus, which I understood to be one of the best Linux anti-viruses. However, within about 10 hours, got the same problem as originally. I wasn't doing any of the same things, and between the lack of consistency in activities and the fact that I had an anti-virus running,figured it wasn't a virus. Not knowing what to do, I just left it and have been using Windows since.
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Feb 18, 2011
We have a digital signage appliance built on SUSE 11.3 with a LAMP server that uses the flashplayer application to play a .swf file from localhost. It is a AOpen GP7A mini pc that has the nVidia drivers loaded. We have lots of customers that have been running the exact same system for over 6 months (we image the drive for each sale).
For some reason, my last customer is seeing the following problem shown below, and this linux configuration is way over my head. Everything else is working (local LAMP server is working, communicating with our production servers to get information works, etc). I have verified that it is screen 0 that is running (at least it shows with Ctrl-Alt-F7). I thought that it may have occurred because of updating the software with zypper up. I had the customer rebuild from the image being careful not to upgrade the software. The result was the same. The pc is a newer version compared to my bench pc, but there are multiple other customers running that same version just fine. So I am not sure if it is
The command is issued by a php script that is run in a root cron job. As I said, it works great on all other customer pc's including my bench system. I also tried to execute the command on a ssh terminal as the root user with the same result. I also upgraded my bench pc and it still worked properly.
The command being executed is sudo env DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=/home/svision/.Xauthority flashplayer http://localhost/flash/sign.swf &
the result (when run in terminal) is: No protocol specified (flashplayer:15077): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
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Nov 5, 2010
Installed Maverick last night... the system has been working fine all day... then on a reboot tonight got the following.
RAMDISK: gzip image found at block 0
usb 1-2: new high speed usb device using ehci_hcd and address 2
uncompression error
VFS: Cannot open root device "mapper/mylaptop-root" or unknown-block(0,0)
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Then it gives the Kernel Panic
Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper not tainted 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu
Then a call trace...This is a brand new install of Maverick I copied my files onto a USB and did a fresh install on the whole drive using the alternate CD (the desktop and netbook editions both failed to read on my system) was previously using Karmic with no issues. I tried to e2fsck the dev/sda1 from the CD in "repair broken system" mode but the return was "clean" I read that as the file system being intact but this is an area that I have no real knowledge in.
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Dec 15, 2010
I was trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 and the upgrade froze half way. (I have to force the upgrade because the message to upgrade never came out in "update manager") and I had to reboot the computer and issue some commands to reconfigure everything. When the computer finally let me into gnome. I logged in as root, however when I click on SYSTEM -> ADMINISTRATION -> USERS AND GROUPS. it open but it stays shadow and Ubuntu's equivalent to the windows hourglass remains forever.
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Feb 2, 2011
My computer won't load the login. How do I load the root of the computer to bypass this freeze? How do I force it to give me the login screen? It only displays the computer's name and ubuntu's version 10.10. There are no links at the bottom to follow.
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Oct 25, 2010
I have a redhat ES3 I want virtualized.the virtual machine encounters a problem starting when it is virtualized
There are this message :
RAMDISK : couldn't find valid RAM Disk image Starting at 0.
VFS: Cannot open root device "LABEL=/" or 00:00
please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00
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Apr 23, 2010
When booting up my IBM Thinkpad Ubuntu stalls giving the following messages:
Cannot open root device "uuid=58a5831c-5757-49f8.....
Kernal Panic - not syncing: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block
Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying to access hardware directly.
I am or was using Hardy.
It seems to me that the program is telling me it can't find the hard drive or the partition where the OS resides. I have my drive partitioned with into sections for booting, the OS and my Home directory.
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Oct 12, 2010
I just upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10.After the upgrade I can't open any GUI programs running as root.
Or using gksu I just get the password prompt and then nothing happens.Same thing if running from the System->Administration menu.This is the same for all programs, not just Synaptic.Any idea of how I can debug this issue?
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Nov 27, 2010
I have a folder owned by root, I can open it by changing the permissions but then I have to change them back when I'm done, I was wondering if there was a way to use the terminal to open the folder as root without changing the permission on the folder permanently? I am admin and have the sudo password if necessary.
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Apr 18, 2011
i wonder how to change permission folder, so only root can open it?
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Sep 4, 2009
I was trying to put a theme directory in /usr/share/themes but when i try to open nautilus as root from the terminal it doesnt open?Is there a way to open nautilus as root? Because i must be root to put the directory in /usr/share/themes tho.
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Jun 6, 2011
Whenever i try sudo gedit I get: Cannot open display: Run 'gedit --help' to see a full list of available command line options. how I can open gedit as root.
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Sep 9, 2009
I am running Lenny with LXDE. Fresh install of the single CD. The regular terminal fails to open when I click on the icon or when I use the Accessories menu title. However, the root terminal will open. Any way to fix this? I don't want to always be using root for routine work.
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Mar 22, 2011
I have added CentOS5.5 x86-64 to a linux box that already contains installations of Ubuntu 9 and SL 5.2. Grub2 was installed with Ubuntu and is on the MBR of the disk. I did not install grub with anaconda/Cent. Grub update in ubuntu finds the Cent install and addes it to the grub.conf, and Cent appears in the grub menu at boot. If I select Cent, I get the following error.
VFS: Cannot open root device "sda7" or unknown-block(0,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Below is the output of boot_info_script, which gives the relevant boot file data. There are still grub conf files on the SL install, but grub is not installed there anymore.
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in partition #6 for /boot/grub .....
sda3/boot/grub/grub.conf:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd1,2)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb3
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
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Mar 24, 2011
i will try to keep this post short and to the point. i am currently running debian with kde and i am trying to edit /etc/apt/sources.list. i know that this file needs to be opened as root for the changes to it to be saved, so what im doing (in konsole) is:
concreteabstract@debian:~$: su
Password:
root@debian: /home/concreteabstract# kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list
but that doesn't work, and the message i get is:
No protocol specified
kwrite: cannot connect to X server :0.0
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Aug 17, 2011
How does one open a folder with root privileges? I am trying to extract a screenlet into a screenlet folder but it says permission denied. How do i change that?
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Jan 13, 2011
I have a Toshiba Laptop running suselinux 11.2 for a few years nowand all of a sudden it timed out while online and received the followingerror message ... you have 0% free space in your home directoryI should have 75% freespace on a 500 Gb drivethe last update patch fix was for libwebkit version 3787 just hours before this happenedKDE will not open completelyI am able to login with root and main user on console modewhat should I do to diagnosehow do I check the partition sizehow do I repair/remove/install KDEneed to copy one file to a flash drive, but do not know enough commands: o mount the flash drive copy the file to the drive
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Aug 30, 2009
However, "E233: cannot open display" error appears when starting gvim on ubuntu 8.04root shell.
E233: cannot open display Press ENTER or type command to continue # kdesudo gvim /etc/fstab kdesudo: cannot connect to X server.
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Jun 6, 2011
I can do it with mousepad. Below is what I get when trying to open with gedit
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Jan 23, 2011
I've been searching for a permanent solution for some time now, but the threads containing the same error message never seem to be about the same issue.I want to:I'm not trying anything fancy, all I want to do is open a write-protected file with gedit as root, like so:
Code:
# sudo gedit /usr/bin/deadbeef
..but every time I try, no matter the file, I get this error message:
Code:
(gedit: [process #] ): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display
I already know: I can circumvent this by going:
Code:
# xhost +local:root
# sudo su
# export DISPLAY=:0.0
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Oct 8, 2010
What is it gedit uses additional that causes so many problems in root account? When run Code: # gedit /some/file it either doesn't open file at all or opens it with lots of errors...
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Jul 6, 2011
So let's say I entered some dir in MC as a regular user and there is a file with very long name which is not convenient to spell and I want to edit it with nano as root. In this directory I type in a command "sudo nano [name]" and autocompletion doesn't work because the TAB key is for another purpose in MC. Can I insert a name of selected file without typing it in MC?
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Oct 21, 2010
I have been trialling Slack 13.1 on a spare 32b system for a couple of weeks, and today I took the plunge and put it on my main machine. I completely re-partitioned the drive (using the Slack disk) and installed Windows7 on one partition and Slack 13.1 on another. The install worked fine and I tested that it boots from LILO into both Windows and Slack perfectly. I then ran:
slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
And since then it fails to boot with the following:
Code:
VFS: Cannot open root device "802" or unknown block(8,2)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
0840 488386584 sde driver: sd
0841 97659103 sde1
0842 19535040 sde2
0843 498015 sde3
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I have seen many, many similar problems when searching Google but they all seem to be caused by different things.
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Jul 2, 2011
i found an encrypted file called vmlinuz that i didn't create and can't delete and can't open because i dont have the password and the root password doesnt work either, what is it?
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Jun 7, 2010
I am using a kernel with no initrd. I have had this kind of panic before. Usually it means that the kernel can access the hard drive because the driver for the controller or filesystem isn't built into the kernel.
The kernel is 2.6.34 vanilla.
My IDE controller is a Silicon Integrated Systems SiS 5513, and I built the driver for it into the kernel BLK_DEV_SIS5513=y
My /boot (hda1) is ext2, and everything else is ext3
EXT2_FS=y
EXT3_FS=y
My grub entry (hda2 is my root partition) kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2
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Sep 14, 2010
Always had this problem on F13... if I run kword from console as root I get.kwordkword(14580): Session bus not found
KCrash: Application 'kword' crashing...
sock_file=/root/.kde/socket-icebox/kdeinit4__0
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
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Apr 8, 2010
In krusader (root mode), I want to edit a plain text file that can only be edited as su. When clicking on the file opened kwrite before, now I get this krusader error message: "KDEInit couldn't launch 'usr/bin/kwrite' OK"
Why is this happening? What's wrong? I've found that this problem begins on the second try to open the file-- for the first time clicking on it, kwrite opens it for editing but not on tries following the first one made in the same computer session. Rebooting fixes the problem but only for the first new opening of the file.
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Apr 8, 2010
My system software is installed on an encrypted LVM on hda1 and hda2. My home directory takes up the whole of hdb1 which is also encrypted. I can boot up into the kde desktop okay, but when I open up konsole and type 'su' and my root password I get the message "su: Authentication failure". I am absolutely certain that I am using the right password.
Even more strangely, if I fire up synaptic and give it that same password I am able to install software. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what's gone wrong and how I can fix it?
I can also type Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root to do administrative tasks without any problems so I cannot understand why konsole has locked me out.
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