From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040124 Description of problem: Once you click on configure, you get errors stating that you can't copy /etc/hosts file to the networking dir due to incorrect permissions. As someone stated in their email, looks like it's just not accessing root first. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-netstatus-0.16-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Right click on applet 2.Click on properties 3.Click on Configure on bottom of menu Actual Results: system-config-network: Error copying //etc/hosts to //etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles//default/hosts: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles//default/hosts'! Then... system-config-network: Error copying //etc/resolv.conf to //etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles//default/resolv.conf: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles//default/resolv.conf'! Then.... system-config-network: Please start system-config-network with root permissions once! Expected Results: Should ask for root password and get root permissions after pressing the Configure button. Additional info:
Has there been any work on this as of late?
NEEDINFO is something used by developers to say "I need more information from the reporter". Marking your bug as NEEDINFO is a sure fire way to make sure it doesn't show up on the developer's radar
This seems to be fixed with lastest package in rawhide. Marking as closed/fixed.