RE: zenmap as root error

[Aaron Leininger <rilian4 () hotmail com>]

I apologize for the delay in getting back to you all on this, my day job has been overwhelming lately. 

I tried your suggestion with the following result: 
nonroot$ sudo su -
myrootprompt# export DISPLAY=:0
myrootprompt# zenmap
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Segmentation fault

I did some digging on this error in google and I found a response suggesting the error stems from trying to run 
something in an x-session that is owned by another user. 

I opened a root-shell directly and ran zenmap again 
myrootprompt# zenmap
With the result that it opened normally. 

Can anyone tell me why I am seeing this behavior? Why does zenmap segmentation fault out if I open a normal shell and 
run: sudo zenmap but if I open a root shell, it launches fine. This seems odd to me. 

Thank you all! 
Aaron


> Hope this helps you. Perhaps you already think about this, but...
> Try to set the DISPLAY variable before.
>
> If I don't set it before, I have the same output:
>
> #zenmap
> Segmentation fault
>
> But after I set It, it works like a charm:
>
> export DISPLAY=:0
>
> and in my linux I also do as my non-root user,   xhost + 
> (checkout your firewall's rules before) 
>
> I'm using debian so I don't know if Suse sets the variable by default.
>
> Never the less, zenmap should'n break like this.
> I'm attaching the zenmap debug output in case someone needs it. (export 
> ZENMAP_DEVELOPMENT=1)
>
> Linux Aquaviva 2.6.24-1-686 #1 SMP Mon Feb 11 14:37:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
> Python 2.4.5
> libpango1.0-0                         1.20.0-1
> libgtk2.0-0                           2.12.9-2
> python-gtk2                           2.12.1-1
>
> cheers
>
> sebas
>
>
>
> El Friday 21 March 2008 11:57:40 Aaron Leininger escribió:
> > I have been working for a while on getting zenmap running on my SuSe 10.2
> > laptop. I have had some python setup issues which I think I have resolved
> > and I can now run zenmap as a regular user....However, when I run zenmap as
> > root I get the following:
> >
> > myprompt#>zenmap
> > segmentation fault
> >
> > I tried it from my regular user with sudo and got the same results.
> > I'm running nmap 4.60 compiled from the main tar.gz. I didn't see any
> > errors during compile.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Aaron
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