Unable to start Totem after switching as root user.

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Issue

  • Trying to run totem from command line after switching as root user:

    $ su
# totem

  • But totem is not starting from gnome-terminal. Getting following error message:

    (totem:xxxxx): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
(totem:xxxxx): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to open a connection to the 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.
(totem:xxxxx): Unique-DBus-WARNING **: Unable to connect to the running instance, aborting.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all versions)

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