I'm concerned with one dynamic of the recurring, like instances (stdout below). Please, do tell of the security risk implied here, and what would be a reasonable course of investigation / reparation; best practice for ensuring a properly configured system-- when that system is NOT to accept connections, for example, on port 80, as it is built to be a development server, and basic desktop facility. as copied/pasted here, the following is Fedora gnome-terminal /home/owner/ "su"'d to root. in contrast to these occurrences for "root", this user can not account (in confidence) for such error reporting, stdout while operating as User (not root), or in another environment, this user is unfamiliar with any like disparity([1]) between "root" and "User"-- upon general command execution-- as to launch, for example, in the WM, a GUI like GEdit. (re: FC5-Fedora 8 [^F6] and various 'buntu'bes). [(1) As to have exhausted TFM; community resources in search of a resolve ] [BEGIN STDOUT_01] (gedit:32160): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.) [END STDOUT_01] [BEGIN STDOUT_02] root@nigel8it etc ]# gnome-session --debug gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): Enabling debugging gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 1: signum=4 (nil) gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 4 signals gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 2: signum=7 (nil) gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 7 signals gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 3: signum=11 (nil) gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 11 signals gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 4: signum=6 (nil) gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 6 signals gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 5: signum=5 (nil) gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 5 signals gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 6: signum=15 0x417290 gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 15 signals gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 7: signum=2 0x417290 gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 2 signals gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 8: signum=8 0x417290 gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 8 signals gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 9: signum=1 0x417290 gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 1 signals gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Adding handler 10: signum=10 0x417290 gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GdmSignalHandler: Registering for 10 signals gnome-session[32183]: WARNING: Could not make bus activated clients aware of DISPLAY=:0.0 environment variable: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. gnome-session[32183]: WARNING: Could not make bus activated clients aware of GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated environment variable: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. gnome-session[32183]: WARNING: Could not make bus activated clients aware of SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/32183,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/32183 environment variable: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GsmXsmpServer: SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:@/tmp/.ICE-unix/32183,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/32183 gnome-session[32183]: Gtk-CRITICAL: gtk_main_quit: assertion `main_loops != NULL' failed gnome-session[32183]: CRITICAL: dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name: assertion `connection != NULL' failed gnome-session[32183]: Gtk-CRITICAL: gtk_main_quit: assertion `main_loops != NULL' failed gnome-session[32183]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed gnome-session[32183]: DEBUG(+): GsmManager: setting client store 0x1802f20 gnome-session[32183]: CRITICAL: error getting session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. [END] Must this event be reported, as a bug? If so, whom should receive what? thank shoes! pie (because /Peace/ is not a salutation) ----------------------------------------------------------- i reckon there be no need to bunch panty here, yo. (should it please the fraternity individuals to gaze upon the notorious flexings of dinkfellow, then i wish for no pardon... but, for me to poo-pon!) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines