Bug 236906

Summary: up2date --nox attempts to connect to x11 server
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component: up2dateAssignee: Bret McMillan <bretm>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Beth Nackashi <bnackash>
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-04-18 11:54:07 UTC 
Description of problem:

In case DISPLAY environment variable is set, up2date attempt
to connect to x11 server regardless of --nox option given on
a command line.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[root@rhel4 mail]# rpm -q up2date
up2date-4.4.69-25
[root@rhel4 mail]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
[root@rhel4 mail]#

Steps to Reproduce:

[root@rhel4 mail]# up2date --nox -i sendmail-cf
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
[root@rhel4 mail]# unset DISPLAY
[root@rhel4 mail]# up2date --nox -i sendmail-cf

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Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-09-21 09:21:48 UTC 
Closing this. Probably noone needs this fixed in RHEL anyways.