Description of problem: can not run programs that require root access from user account Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 7 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. login as user 2. try to run a program as root 3. try to run program as root from terminal Actual results: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 31, in <module> import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display Expected results: to be able to run the desired program that requires root access Additional info: [awp@localhost ~]$ xhost +localhost localhost being added to access control list [awp@localhost ~]$ su root Password: [root@localhost awp]# xhost +localhost Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" [root@localhost awp]# kdesu pup Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified kdesu: cannot connect to X server :0.0 awp@localhost ~]$ xhost access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect SI:localuser:awp [awp@localhost ~]$ xhost +localhost localhost being added to access control list [awp@localhost ~]$ env | grep Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... Try `grep --help' for more information. awp@localhost ~]$ ll /usr/sbin/userhelper -rws--x--x 1 root root 34060 2007-06-15 01:56 /usr/sbin/userhelper [root@localhost ~]# cd /var/log/gdm [root@localhost gdm]# ls -l total 36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1049 2007-06-27 08:32 : 0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1143 2007-06-27 08:31 :0.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1076 2007-06-27 08:21 :0.log.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1230 2007-06-27 08:10 :0.log.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1076 2007-06-27 07:52 :0.log.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1095 2007-06-23 22:07 : 20.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1095 2007-06-23 22:04 :20.log.1
are you really sure that this is the right component?
(In reply to comment #1) > are you really sure that this is the right component? no i am not sure it is the correct component at all.
OK I was at work today & was thinking about what I was doing before my problem of not being able to run programs as root from my user acct & did a little bit of research on the issue. In this process I cam over the suggestion to edit /root/.bashrc & add: export XAUTHORITY= /home/awp/.Xauthority so I did. The result was: export '/home/awp/.Xauthority': not a valid identifier The next suggestion I found was to use the command '-d' which just did not work at all because it was not recognized at all. Then the next suggestion was to use xhost to verify that it is set to permit connections from machine. The result was: access control enabled, only autherized clients can connect INET: localhost.localdomane SI: localuser:awp Then the next suggestion I found was back to 'xhost +localhost' before useing su to log in to root & then doing 'export DISPLAY=:0' aft loging in as root. Well this did not work better that the last time I used the command xhost +localhost. Then I found another suggestion which is to use the command 'xauth merge /home/awp/.Xauthority' The result: xauth merge /home/awp/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority file /home/awp/.Xauthority xauth: (argv):1: merge: unable to open file /home/awp/.Xauthority So none of the suggestions seem that I could find seemed to work for me & the last suggestion was to uninstall & reinstall X. I did not want to do this so I started thinking & recalling what exactly I did before this issue occurred. Other than installing DVD & mp3 support I was messing with xnest attempting to open GDM in a nested window so that I could graphically login as root via my user account. So I uninstalled xorg-x11-server-xnest but that did not resolve my issue. Then I remembered that I had changed my intel integrated graphics driver from the 'Intel - Experimental mode setting driver for Intel integrated graphics chipsets' to the 'i810 intel integrated graphics chipset including i810, i815, 830m, 845G, 852GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM, 945GM'. So I switched the graphics driver back the the 'experimental' driver. That did not work either. Then I had found a file /root/.bash_history which contains the history of bash commands made in the terminal. A series of commands that I had entered jarred my memory. I was attempting to get another desktop manager installed call Enlightenment & int the process one of the dependencies was XFree86. When I attempted to install XFree86 it required several directories to be created: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir and /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth so I had created those directories. And that is when thiss issue started occurring. SO THE SOLUTION TO MY ISSUE: was to delete /X11R6/bin/xauth & /mkfontdir in the /usr directory. Now I am able to use su root to login as root from my user account once again so that I can use programs that require root. Thanks for all the attempts to help me. THIS IS NOT A BUG....SORRY