Description of problem: After changing hostname with system-config-network, I can't start any of the graphical system-config tools anymore. Neither can I start pup. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-network-1.4.7-1.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: (all commands as root) 1. Start system-config-network 2. Change hostname in the DNS tab. 3. Press save and then close system-config-network (don't restart the network interface). 4. Try to start system-config-network again. Actual results: No protocol specified ERROR: Unable to initialize graphical environment. Most likely cause of failure is that the tool was not run using a graphical environment. Please either start your graphical user interface or set your DISPLAY variable. Expected results: system-config-network should start as before. Additional info: # echo $DISPLAY :0.0 The problem seems to be that _gtk.init_check() fails because of some authentication issues against X: This is xauth list after I've changed hostname from apollo2 to apollo4: # xauth list apollo2/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 542532c63e0effe0d5a6bcc06784de23 To be able to start the system-config tools again, I did: # xauth add apollo4/unix:0 . 542532c63e0effe0d5a6bcc06784de23
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