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j0sh

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Registered: 2010-02-27

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[SOLVED] ettercap-gtk error as root - "GTK+ failed to initialize"

Hi guys,

On my KDE install, I get this error whenever I run "sudo ettercap-gtk -G".

ettercap NG-0.7.3 copyright 2001-2004 ALoR & NaGA

No protocol specified

GTK+ failed to initialize. Is X running?

I have qtcurve-gtk2 and qtcurve-kde4 installed. This error started occuring after a recent update.

Any ideas what the problem could be? Thank you for the help fellas.

Last edited by j0sh (2010-08-30 08:32:13)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] ettercap-gtk error as root - "GTK+ failed to initialize"

the new sudo version now doesn't export the user environment. you need to configure sure first

sudo visudo

Last edited by wonder (2010-08-30 07:03:46)

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j0sh

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Registered: 2010-02-27

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Re: [SOLVED] ettercap-gtk error as root - "GTK+ failed to initialize"

the new sudo version now doesn't export the user environment. you need to configure sure first

sudo visudo

Wonder, thank you for the hint.

Using the '-E' option with sudo solved the problem,

$ sudo -E ettercap-gtk -G