[mythtv-users] gksudo gedit error

Thomas Mashos thomas at mashos.com
Thu Aug 28 23:10:35 UTC 2014


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings Mythizens, I'm getting the following error after using gksudo
> gedit:
>
> daryl at daryl-A780L3C:~$ gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
>
> (gedit:3013): Gtk-WARNING **: Calling Inhibit failed:
> GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
>
> There is a previous thread where this error is reported and the solution is
> to use "gksudo gedit" instead of "sudo gedit"  Is there anything else I can
> try to rectify this?
> I'm wondering if this could be related to the problems I was having with
> MCC, what do you think Thomas?
>
> clean Trusty with 0.27 mythtv    TIA Daryl
>
> _______________________________________________

No, I think all of your issues with MCC stem from mythexport. I've
talked to the dev of that and he is going to fix it.

As for editing the file, IDK, I use vim, although nano will work in a
pinch (nano is installed by default, vim you would need to install)


Thanks,

Thomas Mashos


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