Bug 81848
| Summary: | If up2date (version 2.8.39-1.7.0) is started by a non-root user with the --nox option, it still opens an X window to prompt for the root password | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Brian Kasper <kasper> |
| Component: | up2date | Assignee: | Adrian Likins <alikins> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | CC: | gafton, mihai.ibanescu |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-01-15 04:00:31 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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the version of userhelper in that release doesnt understand the idea of "--nox" so it ignores it. "userhelper" is the app that actually pops up the root password window, not up2date itself. Work around is to su to root and run up2date, therefore not invoking userhelper. Versions of userhelper in newer releases understand "--nox" better and dont show this behaviour. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212 Description of problem: The --nox option to up2date is useful when one is logging in remotely from a system which isn't running an X server. If one starts up2date as root with the --nox option, it functions as expected (i.e. all output goes to the console). If, however, one isn't a root user, up2date prompts for the root password, and *tries to open an X window to do so*! up2date then crashes with this error: connect 127.0.0.1 port 6000: Connection refused Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). I don't think this behavior is what should be expected -- up2date should prompt for the root password in the console window. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.8.39-1.7.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect to RHL7.0 system via ssh as a non-root user from a system without an X server running (tunnelling X over ssh so the RHL7.0 system will try to display any windows on the local machine) 2. Run "up2date --nox -u" to update the entire system 3. Watch up2date crash Actual Results: up2date crashed with the error message connect 127.0.0.1 port 6000: Connection refused Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Expected Results: up2date should have prompted me for the root password in the console window (or, less preferably, exited cleanly after telling me I have to be root to perform the desired action) Additional info: