From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10 Description of problem: On an stock installation of FC2 (updates only, no extra packages or foreign RPMs), launching ethereal does not invoke PAM or userhelper to raise privilege levels, i.e., non-root users cannot start Ethereal from menus or launchers and perform packet traces. The workaround is to start a terminal window and use su or sudo, but it would be preferrable for novices to be prompted for the root password correctly (same as, say, hwbrowser and other system tools). Relevant desktop, helper and global PAM entries exist for ethereal, but there seems to be something amiss. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): ethereal-gnome-0.10.5-0.2.2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC2 2. yum or RHN it to latest packages, add ethereal, ethereal-gnome 3. Log in as an unprivileged user and start Ethereal from the menu. It launches immediatly, but you cannot perform traces nor are you asked for the root password to do so. Actual Results: I could not perform packet traces without launching Ethereal from a terminal window using the root account. Expected Results: I should have been prompted for the root password either upon launching Ethereal or upon starting a packet trace. Additional info:
This is really strange behaviour as I have experienced the same bug on one of my PC's but the others are working just fine. Can you send me the usermode version you're using. $ rpm -q usermode usermode-1.73-1 You're correct that pam.d and console.apps files are present and are same on both machines.
Ethereal when is installed localy doesn't use /usr/bin/ethereal but other file. Check $ which ethereal /usr/bin/ethereal if you've got something else than you've propably installed other ethereal localy.