cannot run sudo/gksudo remotely

[James E. LaBarre]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Have tried to run various administrative tasks on a Maverick/10.10 system when logged into it with "ssh -X user@system" Am unable to get any GUI applications to run.

for example, running "gksudo -l" will show these errors on the terminal window where I have run that:

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GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Error connecting: Connection refused)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Error connecting: Connection refused)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Error connecting: Connection refused)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Error connecting: Connection refused)

(gksudo:5053): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; the most common cause is a missing or misconfigured D-Bus session bus daemon. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Error connecting: Connection refused)
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I will get a popup window to give the command I want to run, after which it will prompt me for my password. After that, I get a popup error which says:

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Failed to run gnome-terminal as user root.

The underlying authorization mechanism (sudo) does not allow you to run this program. Contact the system administrator.
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Running this command locally as the same user works with no problem.

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Not a thunderbird issue..needs reassignment

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

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1. Is this reproducible?
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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