Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1024847
Yumex Closes On PollicyKit Error
Last modified: 2015-05-06 08:46:33 EDT
Description of problem: Yumex closed wnen cancelling on no password entry. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.0.13 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open yumex 2.Wait for list of updates 3.Select nothing 4.Select apply 5.Press Enter without password 6.Press Cancel to start over 7.Press Enter on polkit error 8.Program closes Actual results: See above Expected results: Should allow user to go back to update list. Additional info:
I will look into this. 1. Yumex should not ask for password if there is no pending action. 2. Yumex should not abort if user press cancel, only on other polkit problems.
Yumex doesn't function on a remote machine. When I'm sshed into another machine and I run yumex from root (yumex --root) nothing happens when I try to do an install. If I do it as a user it does nothing I get the error Could not get polkit autherisation to start backend Yum Extender will terminate I have selinux disabled, why is it complaining about a policy kit error?
I'm running Fedora 20 on both the client and server systems
could you please retest with https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yumex-3.0.16-1.fc20 I have changed so yumex always start the package backend in root mode, so it will ask for the root password only when you start yumex. in the ssh case you properly should use 'sudo yumex --root' to launch yumex, think it will work in this release.
Yumex is working fine now on Fedora 20 and 21 but not on RHEL7 clones. It's the same bug that was fixed for Fedora, please push the change to EPEL7
pushed a new version for epel7 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/yumex-3.0.16-2.el7 same release as F20 & F21