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Bug 438463

Summary: running system-config-packages under consolehelper causes an "Unknown error"
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component: pirutAssignee: James Antill <james.antill>
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Version: 5.1CC: bkearney, vdanen
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Description Murray McAllister 2008-03-21 06:25:56 UTC 
Description of problem:

Running "/usr/bin/system-config-packages" causes an "Unknown error" dialog to
open. Works fine when running "/usr/sbin/system-config-packages"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client release 5.1 (Tikanga)
* pirut-1.2.10-1.el5.
* kernel-2.6.18-53.1.13.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /usr/bin/system-config-packages

Actual results:

"Unknown error" - see attached screenshot

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /usr/sbin/system-config-packages

Actual results:

Works as expected.

Additional info:

I do not know why I have /usr/bin/system-config-packages, and
/usr/sbin/system-config-packages...maybe that has something to do with the problem.

Both are symbolic links pointing to pirut:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Sep 14  2007 /usr/bin/system-config-packages -> pirut

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Sep 14  2007 /usr/sbin/system-config-packages -> pirut
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2008-03-21 06:25:56 UTC 
Created attachment 298771 [details]
screenshot of "Unknown error"
Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2008-03-21 06:27:18 UTC 
Created attachment 298772 [details]
output from 'strace /usr/bin/system-config-packages &>'
Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2008-03-21 08:12:15 UTC 
Both /usr/bin/pirut and /usr/sbin/pirut work fine; however, the "*Note* Red Hat
Network repositories are not listed below. You must run this command as root to
access RHN repositories. RHN support will be disabled." message is only
displayed when running /usr/sbin/pirut.

Thanks,

Murray.