Cant 'su' once in X11

kazzmir · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 50

While trying to upgrade CVS emerge wanted to upgrade pam to 0.78-r2. This failed and other posts on this board seemed to suggest downgrading to pam-0.77 would be ok. So I did that and now I cant su to any user from my normal user while in X11. But I can su if Im on the console. This makes me very confused.
Whilst in X11:

tdennist · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 May 2004 Posts: 145

Try 'su -' instead of just 'su'. I had a similar problem, and this fixed it.
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kazzmir · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 50

'su -' doesnt work either. Funny thing is if I ssh to localhost I can su, even when in X11. Its only when Im in regular X11 that I cannot su.