Bug 550479

Summary:	yumex will not run from a LIVE system
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Perazim <perazim>
Component:	yumex	Assignee:	Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	12	CC:	tim.lauridsen
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Description Perazim 2009-12-25 13:35:20 UTC

Description of problem: Yumex will not run when logged in as root which appears to be by design. Problem is that you cannot run yumex from a LIVE system because it is running as root. (I have created a custom LIVE DVD including yumex).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):F-12


How reproducible:Every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot LIVE image
2.yumex
3.
  
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Expected results:


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Comment 1 Tim Lauridsen 2009-12-26 09:25:55 UTC

You are not running as root on a normal fedora live cd, you are running as the 'Fedora' user.

I have not tried, but it can be a problem because the root user has no password on the standard livecd.

But you can have made a different user setup on your custom live DVD.

Running as root is a bad idea, even on a live system (IMO).

Comment 2 Perazim 2009-12-26 11:08:24 UTC

I have not changed the user setup on my custom live DVD. Since you tell me that I am actually running as user "Fedora" then my problem seems to be that there is no root password on the LIVE system.

Can yumex be changed to see if it is running on a LIVE system and behave differently?

Comment 3 Tim Lauridsen 2009-12-30 09:06:07 UTC

Ok, I have added an '--root' option to upstream, to make it possible to run yumex as root.

'yumex' will give you at warning and bail out if run as root.

'yumex --root' will start yumex if running as root.

Media support will not work as root, everything else should work fine.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2010-01-01 10:57:36 UTC

yumex-2.9.5-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yumex-2.9.5-1.fc12

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2010-01-02 03:36:07 UTC

yumex-2.9.5-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yumex'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F12/FEDORA-2010-0044

Comment 6 Perazim 2010-01-06 10:45:22 UTC

Applied this update and works as advertised in a LIVE system. Thanks for timely response.