05-08-2014, 01:39 PM
(05-07-2014, 02:19 AM)gold_finger link Wrote: Ran into same problem this morning when testing something in a VM for another poster here. I was trying to open the text editor with root privileges from a terminal and it wouldn't accept my password. Now I know what you were talking about South_Oz.
Just in case others don't know, this is not a problem isolated to just MythTV. It has to do with invoking any GUI program from the terminal with root privileges. I don't know why this occurs to people on some occasions, but apparently it does. (Didn't happen to me on a couple of real installations, but did on the VM installation this morning. Why? I have no idea.)
Here is post explaining in more detail how to fix it: https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index....0#msg1581.
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