[ubuntu-uk] Recovery with live CD

[Colin Law]

On 19 October 2011 12:08, Andy Braben <andybraben at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> After other comments here: does gksudo nautilus work?
>
> YES
>>
>> Also - is nautilus still used in Ubuntu 11.10?
>
> YES
>>
>> In a live session - iirc, then in a terminal, just
>> su
>> will raise you to superuser level I think, then , to start (nautilus) just
>> nautilus
>> (??)
>
> YES, but that is the same as "sudo nautilus" which should be avoided as
> already stated.

Apparently we are not allowed to run nautilus or, for that matter,
gedit, via gksudo (or sudo).  See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/805682
and
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/838404

Colin