Bug 236906 - up2date --nox attempts to connect to x11 server
Summary: up2date --nox attempts to connect to x11 server
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: up2date
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Bret McMillan
QA Contact: Beth Nackashi
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-04-18 11:54 UTC by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-09-21 09:21:48 UTC
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-04-18 11:54:07 UTC 
Description of problem:

In case DISPLAY environment variable is set, up2date attempt
to connect to x11 server regardless of --nox option given on
a command line.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[root@rhel4 mail]# rpm -q up2date
up2date-4.4.69-25
[root@rhel4 mail]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
[root@rhel4 mail]#

Steps to Reproduce:

[root@rhel4 mail]# up2date --nox -i sendmail-cf
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
[root@rhel4 mail]# unset DISPLAY
[root@rhel4 mail]# up2date --nox -i sendmail-cf

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Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-09-21 09:21:48 UTC 
Closing this. Probably noone needs this fixed in RHEL anyways.
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