Bug 17669

Summary:	/usr/bin/up2date fails to run on console
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	John Newbigin <jn>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description John Newbigin 2000-09-19 00:25:58 UTC

When running from a console with no DISPLAY variable, /usr/bin/up2date exits silently without any warnings/messages etc.  This might not be 
an up2date bug but perhaps with consolehelper.

When /usr/sbin/up2date is invoked directly it functions correctly.

When a DISPLAY value is set /usr/bin/up2date functions correctly

Comment 1 tom 2000-11-02 21:11:53 UTC

I can confirm this bug.  Glad I found it in bugzilla, because it was driving me nuts.  
Installed a fresh 6.2 system without X, had to jump through hoops to manually install 
the dependencies for up2date, and then it wouldn't launch.  When I tried 
'/usr/sbin/up2date' though, it worked fine.

Once I ran all of the available 6.2 updates, I was able to run it as 'up2date'.

Comment 2 Preston Brown 2000-12-21 19:30:09 UTC

fixed in errata being released shortly.