Bug 857229

Summary:	RC3-Alpha Xfce spin: yumex doesn't open (polkit authentication dialog fails to pop-up) on live-cd.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sergio <ikisham>
Component:	yumex	Assignee:	Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	dennis, tim.lauridsen
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Description Sergio 2012-09-13 20:27:54 UTC

Description of problem: running live-cd the polkit authentication dialog doesn't pop-up when launching yumex so it doesn't work.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F18 RC3-Alpha Xfce spin, yumex 3.0.6


How reproducible: always here, but my system is very old with 1GB memory and although I'm careful with the testing I see that these F18 early spins really overload it so I don't know if it influences or not.

Steps to Reproduce: see description.
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Actual results: see description.


Expected results: polkit authentication dialog should pop-up or as there's no root password on live-cd then yumex maybe should work right away.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2012-09-14 16:24:29 UTC

Does it silently fail, or...?

Comment 2 Sergio 2012-09-14 16:32:45 UTC

This is how yumex works in a F17 installation:
http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-09142012-012835pm.php

On the live-Cd, since there's no password for root, yumex is stuck on that screen but *without the authentication box*.
yumex is there waiting so I think it's some polkit issue that in the live environment should allow yumex without asking for password (maybe, I don't understand about this).

Comment 3 Tim Lauridsen 2012-09-14 17:16:47 UTC

It looks like you are hit by this one

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834494

if the liveuser is not member of the wheel group, then polkit don't work and is hanging.

su -
usermod -G liveuser,wheel liveuser

should make it work

Comment 4 Sergio 2012-09-18 20:40:48 UTC

Just confirming that that makes it work.

Comment 5 Tim Lauridsen 2012-09-19 14:38:03 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 834494 ***