From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061107 Fedora/1.5.0.8-1.fc6 Firefox/1.5.0.8 Description of problem: I'm running FC6 on my Dell Inspiron 5150. I wanted to try "Desktop Effects" so I enabled that. It needs either ATI or NVidia driver support, so I got the nvidia drivers from the livna repo. Now I have working desktop effects, but pirut will not start when started from the menu (as Add/Remove Software). From the command line: [root@localhost ~]# pirut Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Unable to import modules. Maybe you're not running under X? Other applications I've tried don't have this problem. I know running the NVidia X "drivers" is bad, but desktop effects is _so_ cool, I wanted to try it ;-) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pirut-1.2.8-1.fc6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable desktop effects 2. Click on Add/Remove Software 3. Notice nothing happening when Actual Results: No pirut started Expected Results: Pirut running and ready for use Additional info:
It seems that it is not just pirut that has problems, but every application that requires root access and is "hidden" behind the root password dialogue
After the updates I installed on thursday/wednesday, the problem disappeared,