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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041012 Firefox/0.10.1 Description of problem: Running redhat-config-services from a command prompt does nothing. The GUI does not appear and command prompt is returned. redhat-config-services is a soft link to serviceconf. If you call serviceconf from a command line the GUI comes up as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): serviceconf-0.6.6-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run redhat-config-services froma command prompt 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing happens Expected Results: service configuration GUI should appear Additional info: observed on ia64 and i386
The problem is that there is no file /etc/security/console.apps/redhat-config-services with the same contents as the serviceconf file in the same directory. Therefore consolehelper doesn't know about a program named redhat-config-services. I can see some workarounds: - Use "serviceconf" as this is the advertised name of the program in RHEL2.1 (after all the package is called serviceconf) - "cp /etc/security/console.apps/serviceconf /etc/security/console.apps/redhat-config-services" - Start the program from the "Program/System/Service Configuration" menu entry (as this in turn will call serviceconf) I have fixed this in package CVS (so it will be in the next erratum), but I won't issue an erratum just for that (because it's a pure convenience problem and there are easy workarounds). Perhaps you might want to open a BZ against usermode because it should rather give you an error such as "I don't know anything about `redhat-config-services´' than only dropping you back to the shell.