new guy checking in has new problem(s)

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 15:29 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> I've never yet used gksudo and haven't yet perceived a problem.  What
> are the symptoms of the lockfile issues?  Is this a recent
> development? I was under the impression that a change of path was the
> only difference.  I must review the gksudo command, it seems.

There once was a short explanation here, but now it only says "don't do
it":  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

IIRC the issues were (a) the creation of (hidden) config files with root
permissions, when an app had been not run before and (b) some nasty
issue with a lock file being created in /var/somewhere, again with root
permission, that would sometimes lead to X not being able to restart.