Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 387801
pirut crash when run as non-root, after package selection
Last modified: 2007-12-31 09:52:01 EST
Description of problem: Pirut crashes when run as a non-root user due to permission denied exception. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pirut-1.3.25-2.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run pirut as a non-root user 2. Select some package to add 3. Start the install process 4. Crash Actual results: Crash Expected results: Some kind of error message when starting pirut as non-root, or use the helper GUI to elevate to root like other apps do. Additional info: By the way, does Pirut show up in the Gnome menus? I couldn't find it anywhere, so launched it from a terminal window. I can add a backtrace if you need; it'll be a while since pirut's running (as root!) right now...
Whoops, I had commented out the check for running as root to do some testing. It's not quite ready to run in that mode yet, though. Running /usr/bin/pirut, though, should invoke consolehelper to run it as root Also, it's "Add/Remove Software" in the menus.
Ah. I had uncommented the code in /etc/profile that adds /*/sbin into my PATH for non-root users, because it was annoying not having those PATH entries e.g. for ifconfig. This explains why /usr/sbin/pirut ran instead of /usr/bin/pirut.
New versions of pirut have been released that should address these issues