Bug 166642 - cannot select unprivliged with ethereal
Summary: cannot select unprivliged with ethereal
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 159958
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ethereal
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Radek Vokál
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-08-24 06:57 UTC by Tomasz Kepczynski
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-08-24 07:01:50 UTC
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Description Tomasz Kepczynski 2005-08-24 06:57:05 UTC 
Description of problem:
I type ethereal from command line and get prompt for root password from
consolehelper. I choose "run unprivileged". Then I get error messabox with
"unknown error" message. Ethereal load OK when using full path, ie.
/usr/sbin/ethereal.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ethereal-0.10.12-1.FC4.2

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type ethereal as non root user and make sure you launch /usr/bin/ethereal
2. click "Run unprivileged"
  
Actual results:
Ethereal does not start.

Expected results:
Ethereal starts.

Additional info:
This was already reported on FC1 in bug 111265.
Comment 1 Radek Vokál 2005-08-24 07:01:50 UTC 
This turned out to be usermode bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159958 ***
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