Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 41121
graphical up2date-config barfs when run as root
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:45:48 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686) Description of problem: up2date-config cannot attach to X server when run as root and drops into a command line config tool How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. su - 2. up2date-config 3. Actual Results: [root@underdog williams]# up2date-config Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server 0. storageDir /var/spool/up2date 1. headerCacheSize 40 2. httpProxy 3. debug No 4. useGPG Yes 5. retrieveOnly No 6. enableProxy No 7. keepAfterInstall No 8. proxyPassword 9. proxyUser 10. headerFetchCount 10 11. versionOverride 12. enableProxyAuth No 13. noSSLServerURL http://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC 14. noReplaceConfig Yes 15. noBootLoader No 16. systemIdPath /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid 17. serverURL https://www.rhns.redhat.com/XMLRPC 18. pkgSkipList [] 19. adminAddress ['root@localhost'] 20. forceInstall No 21. fileSkipList [] 22. retrieveSource No Enter number of item to edit <return to exit, q to quit without saving>: Expected Results: The graphical client should have popped up, without prompting for the root user password. Additional info:
This looks like an xhosts problem, not an up2date problem. Can you run other X clients. Also, perhaps there is a problem connecting to localhost. Could you paste in your /etc/hosts file?
Looks like this only happens on my laptop, so it must be an X configuration issue. Further exploration shows that doesn't occur when I use 'su -', it's only when I do a 'sudo -s'. My /etc/hosts file contents: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.0.1 horatius 192.168.0.13 penguin If you can't duplicate it, then I say we close it out, since I have a workaround.