Bug 216339

Summary:	pirut will not start when running compiz
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andreas Sikkema <ramdyne>
Component:	pirut	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Andreas Sikkema 2006-11-19 15:25:37 UTC

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061107 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.8

Description of problem:
I'm running FC6 on my Dell Inspiron 5150. I wanted to try "Desktop Effects" so I enabled that. It needs either ATI or NVidia driver support, so I got the nvidia drivers from the livna repo. Now I have working desktop effects, but pirut will not start when started from the menu (as Add/Remove Software). From the command line:

[root@localhost ~]# pirut
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Unable to import modules.  Maybe you're not running under X?

Other applications I've tried don't have this problem. I know running the NVidia X "drivers" is bad, but desktop effects is _so_ cool, I wanted to try it ;-)


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pirut-1.2.8-1.fc6

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable desktop effects
2. Click on Add/Remove Software
3. Notice nothing happening when 

Actual Results:
No pirut started

Expected Results:
Pirut running and ready for use

Additional info:

Comment 1 Andreas Sikkema 2006-11-22 20:37:02 UTC

It seems that it is not just pirut that has problems, but every application that
requires root access and is "hidden" behind the root password dialogue

Comment 2 Andreas Sikkema 2006-11-24 11:24:11 UTC

After the updates I installed on thursday/wednesday, the problem disappeared,