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Topic: Emelfm and super user not starting......

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blip

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Posted: June 17 2007,07:59

Hi there
For some reason Emelfm is not opening as Super User from the menu but will open as a normal user. Midnight commander is opening as both super user and normal user.

Does anyone know a solution here? It has been working as root........

Thanks

mikshaw

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Posted: June 17 2007,14:06

First thing I'd do is run the command "sudo emelfm" from aterm and see if there are any error messages.

Second, check /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu, around line 65, to see if the file got messed up somehow.

I can't think of anything else to suggest at the moment, until we get more info about the outcome of the above.

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blip

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Posted: June 17 2007,15:08

Thanks a lot. I found if I right mouse click over the icon I can run it as superuser! Just not from the menu.
Also I found when I switched to Fluxbox I could run it.. (I'm not running Fluxbox ).

I've just tested sudo emelfm and that does run...
I can switch to Fluxbox if necessary.....
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mikshaw

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Posted: June 18 2007,02:13

so there is perhaps a problem with your jwm configuration.

I have two different .jwmrc files available at the moment. The one from DSL 3.2 uses this command

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sudo su -c emelfm

and the other one I have (a carry-over from an older home directory) is

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sudo /bin/bash -c emelfm

It seems to me that both *should* work, but I'm not sure why the second one runs bash.

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