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[Colin Law <761836@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The summary line for this bug should be changed to indicate that the problem also occurs when running gedit with gksudo as other bugs that refer to gksudo have been marked as duplicates of this one.
Sudo should not be used with gedit of course, one should always gksudo.

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Title:
  Gtk-WARNING when running with sudo

Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gedit

  Fresh setup of Natty beta 2 - wanted to prepare it for my TV-Card.
  This is the terminal output:
  ~$ sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/bttv
  [sudo] password xXxXxX: 

  (gedit:2636): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into
  `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create
  file '/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.9YUNTV': No such file or
  directory

  (gedit:2636): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to set the permissions of
  `/root/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: No such file or
  directory

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: gedit 2.30.4-2ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Apr 15 16:50:40 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gedit
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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