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Bug 1474299 - Log tool can not be started as user (no password entry request)
Summary: Log tool can not be started as user (no password entry request)
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1487248
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: gnome-system-log
Version: 7.4
Hardware: All
OS: All
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Desktop QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-24 10:58 UTC by Oliver Ilian
Modified: 2021-06-10 12:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-09-08 17:23:41 UTC
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Description Oliver Ilian 2017-07-24 10:58:12 UTC 
Description of problem:
Starting gnome-system-log from a Gnome 3 User session produces error in log file but does not ask for the root password.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-system-log-3.9.90-3.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start RHEL 7.4 with a user logged in to Gnome 3 session
2. press "Windows" key and type "log"
3. Star the "System Log" tool

Actual results:
no root password request and error in journalctl:

Jul 24 12:50:57 xxxx gnome-system-log.desktop[15359]: Refusing to render service to dead parents.
Jul 24 12:51:01 xxxx tracker-extract[4830]: unable to create file '/run/user/14685/dconf/user': Permission denied.  dconf will not work properly.


Expected results:
gnome-system-log


Additional Info:
Starting journalctl from the terminal as user shows the following warning:

Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
      Users in groups 'adm', 'systemd-journal', 'wheel' can see all messages.
      Pass -q to turn off this notice.

but shows my log entries for my user. Would be cool if Gnome System log would do the same, so users can look into issues and error messages more easy.
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2017-09-08 17:23:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1487248 ***
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