From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OeaGO-0004Eh-L5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:03:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0F1FE0AC8 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:03:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6189E0A68 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:35:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk9 with SMTP id 9so368765pzk.40 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:35:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=KL73piFCwJFu+PVNygs+2muFOZwx2S8w0yZmVL3WeB0=; b=mpbtSXkJ9lzDP4Ht8SFJDTrhGl3r1C/oGvKoWrXuah0EXvdZGBrpc+E1Dr8TtcLbZc YWBbytWkaSq0PW84yP7adTn4OCyVnp4dBPN75q6WgPW7yNfd9D6pG0vdZ8QcHe4zqLnj ZfN//2C5L8zzLHQ9XvU8vM1pidIGq8FId396I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=ABWTdIvygpirrdeSY0o0TSs+0YAxRk7ot9guGtMnsVmUAGpJnH9ZZ88nipJ83fK73B csss6aw021WbKNIYuuiPQ61y2l73AHTugfJwedge3nDjuWjOVy61QeW8lb83PXcc1x3o 0X6BTy86OX4xe0+H1A8AD8bXc/eCXCiZXyfFQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.207.9 with SMTP id e9mr717507wfg.56.1280435746839; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:35:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.192.21 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:35:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:35:46 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: [gentoo-user] Ever since a recent update, vim misbehaves when run as root From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd32c4ed935a0048c8cad78 X-Archives-Salt: e3769b27-71b7-45a5-b00c-ea8e4e424681 X-Archives-Hash: 72f09f202f8ae9eae5fdfb374c6eaede --000e0cd32c4ed935a0048c8cad78 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I'm not exactly sure when, but starting a month or so ago, vim has been acting weird when I run it as root. For one thing, there are messages Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server on the console. I presume this is an X authority thing, but I'm not sure why it became an issue when it wasn't before, and I've completely forgotten what to do about it. I'm generally running a gnome-terminal 2.26.3.1 under KDE on plain Gento. It's weird, I know, but I've been doing this for ages. Moreover, in spite of weirdness, the editing session works. Except that there are messages Xlib: No protocol specified overlaid on the document scattered more or less randomly. They can be cleaned off by control-L. This is barely workable, and leaves me with a WTF sort of feeling. Fortunately, I don't do a whole lot of editing as root, but there's always something... Any clues out there? -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD --000e0cd32c4ed935a0048c8cad78 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm not exactly sure when, but starting a month or so ago, vim has been= acting weird when
I run it as root.=A0 For one thing, there are message= s
=A0=A0=A0 Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
on the console.=A0 I presume this is an X authority thing, but I'm not = sure why it became an
issue when it wasn't before, and I've comp= letely forgotten what to do about it.=A0 I'm generally
running a gno= me-terminal 2.26.3.1 under KDE on plain Gento.

It's weird, I know, but I've been doing this for ages. Moreover= , in spite of weirdness, the editing session works.

Except that ther= e are messages
=A0=A0 Xlib: No protocol specified
overlaid on the do= cument scattered more or less randomly.=A0 They can be cleaned off by
control-L.

This is barely workable, and leaves me with a WTF sort of= feeling.
Fortunately, I don't do a whole lot of editing as root, bu= t there's always something...

Any clues out there?

-- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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