[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#518390: base: GnomeUI authentication rejected

[Eugenio M. Vigo]

Package: base
Severity: normal

Any attempt to use a GNOME based application from gnome-terminal with root 
privileges results in the following warning:

           GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
           Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication 
           protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication 
           failed.

This makes some applications partially unusable. For example, trying to use 
gnome-terminal as root will fail to load/write preferences and the same with 
Gedit.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_AR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_AR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash