Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 167267
pam-panel icon no longer appears
Last modified: 2008-02-28 15:06:57 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.4; Linux) KHTML/3.4.2 (like Gecko) Description of problem: This is bug is sort of the opposite of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166160. I used to have a blank (ugly) space always in the system tray that would display the authentication shield whenever I used a program that required root privilidge. Now this space is gone, but the shield never shows up either, even when I have put in root password to run something. Ksysguard shows that pam-panel-icon and pam_timestamp_c are running, but the only way to actually get the icon into the system tray is to kill those two processes and then issue the command "pam-panel-icon." Then the white space / shield appear, but are once again gone when I log in next time. (Actually, they are missing ~90% of the time; sometimes when I log into KDE the icon is, indeed, in the system tray. I haven't been able to figure out what makes it show occasionally.) In my $HOME/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc there are these two lines: program13=pam-panel-icon . . . restartCommand13=/usr/bin/pam-panel-icon,--sm-client-id,10e1d4d474000112554038300000031200014 If I delete these two lines, the pam-panel-icon process isn't running upon login, and it doesn't start when I authenticate as root. Thanks! Vesko Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): KDE 3.4.2-0.fc4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into KDE -- there is no white space in the system tray. 2. Start application (e.g. Service Manager), requiring root access; enter root password. Actual Results: No shield appears in system tray, even though pam-panel-icon is running. Expected Results: Shield should appear in sytem tray. It should disappear (without leaving blank space) when exiting the program. Additional info: Probably irrelevant, but I began seeing this bug around the time I switched the background of the panel to transparent.
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
Fedora Core 4 is no longer maintained. Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the current Fedora release, please reopen this bug and assign it to the corresponding Fedora version.