Under System Tools, Root Terminal will NOT run (should handle gconf failure more gracefully)

[David Ring]

Under Preferences, then Main menu, if "Root Terminal" is checked so that it will appear, when clicked on, it will not run in Jaunty Alpha 6. It crashes. In Terminal, a sudo su command will work so perhaps others have not seen this.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. I'm assigning this to gnome-terminal, because x-terminal-emulator points to gnome-terminal by default, and I can confirm this behaviour. When running from the terminal, I see:

chr1s@chris-desktop:~$ gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.chr1s@chris-desktop:~$

If you want a root terminal, open your terminal emulator and run:

sudo -s -H

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Edited the title, as it clearly isn't crashing

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This is already known upstream here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564649

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 328575, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.