[SOLVED] gParted wont start

I have Arch installed with KDE. I wanted to make some changes to my partiton table and thought of using gParted to get the work done.
I installed gparted as:
sudo pacman -S gparted
Now, when I try executing gparted form the GUI, I get the authentication window, where it asked for the user password. Upon entering it, nothing at all happens. gParted just wont start.
I tried running it from Konsole:
sudo gparted /dev/sda
I get an error as:
No protocol specified
(gpartedbin:2475): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
Please help identify why gParted wont start on my system.
Last edited by darnir (2012-01-08 05:11:09)

@anonymous_user: thanks, i have been looking for that
@darnir: you could change the first posts title and add [SOLVED] at the begining

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