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Andrewclive

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Registered: 2019-04-18

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[Solved] Thunar as root error message

Dear all,
I wonder if anyone can help me with the error messages I get when I open root thunar both through the terminal and through using "pkexec thunar %f" as a custom action. Thunar does work, but I get these error messages:

export: Thunar: Failed to initialize Xfconf: Using X11 for dbus-daemon autolaunch was disabled at compile time, set your DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS instead
(thunar:7291): thunar-WARNING **: 11:34:05.732: Name 'org.xfce.FileManager' lost on the message dbus.
(thunar:7291): thunar-WARNING **: 11:34:05.732: Name 'org.freedesktop.FileManager1' lost on the message dbus.
ThunarThumbnailer: failed to create proxy: Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=451b18d548814f329342a65704bc520d --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1

Thank you for your help.

Last edited by Andrewclive (2019-06-04 18:52:35)

ToZ

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Re: [Solved] Thunar as root error message

There was a bug report about this recently and fixed in a recent version of thunar. Which version are you running? I'll see if I can locate the bug report.

Edit: Here is the original bug report and a follow-up bug report that fine-tuned the solution. Looks like they were released in 1.8.3 and 1.8.5 respectively.

Last edited by ToZ (2019-06-04 03:19:12)

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Andrewclive

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Re: [Solved] Thunar as root error message

Thank you for the prompt response - I'm using thunar 1.8.6.

ToZ

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Re: [Solved] Thunar as root error message

My bad, I misread your first message.

Thunar does work

Those are just warning messages that thunar can't connect to your profile's xfconfd service or DBUS_SESSION when run  as root, which makes sense. They are not available to the root user. They are just warnings, you can ignore them. The bug reports I listed fixed an issue where thunar wouldn't even start.

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Andrewclive

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Re: [Solved] Thunar as root error message

Great. Thank you very much for your help. How do I mark the thread as solved?

Last edited by Andrewclive (2019-06-04 10:53:06)

ToZ

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Re: [Solved] Thunar as root error message

How do I mark the thread as solved?

Click "Edit" on your original post in this thread and prepending the tag [SOLVED] to the title in the Subject field.

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