Bug 134498 - Firefox %post wants to use X
Summary: Firefox %post wants to use X
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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Blocks: 140583
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-10-04 03:20 UTC by Rob Kearey
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-11-24 03:11:19 UTC
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Description Rob Kearey 2004-10-04 03:20:24 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20040929

Description of problem:
Upon ssh'ing to a test box, sudo su'ing, and running yum update, I get
the following:

firefox 100 % done 77/216
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.

What is it trying to achieve?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-0.10.1-1.0PR1.8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. ssh to box foo
2. sudo su -
3. yum update firefox
    

Actual Results:  Got X11 Connection Refused error

Expected Results:  Should install without needing an open X display?

Additional info:
Comment 8 Christopher Aillon 2004-11-24 03:11:19 UTC 
Can't seem to reproduce this anymore with firefox 1.0 -- marking WFM.
Comment 9 Rob Kearey 2005-03-29 03:37:32 UTC 
Still happening for me in FC3 ...
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