Description of problem: When puplet notifies that there are new updates available I click on 'View updates' and nothing happens. I could see that getproxy was launched but immediately defunc and auth failed in audit log, Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pirut-1.3.28-1.fc8 How reproducible: Not sure ... I have to note that this worked some time before. After I've upgraded from F7 to F8 it worked for some time but then it stopped to work. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora 8 (or upgrade F7->F8?) 2. Try to view updates via puplet ... Actual results: puplet won't launch auth dialog for root user. in /var/log/audit/audit.log I see ... type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1212570069.548:405): user pid=21213 uid=500 auid=500 subj=unconfined_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:authentication acct="root" exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? res=failed)' type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1212570069.552:406): user pid=21213 uid=500 auid=500 subj=unconfined_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:authentication acct="root" exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? res=failed)' type=USER_AUTH msg=audit(1212570069.555:407): user pid=21213 uid=500 auid=500 subj=unconfined_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 msg='op=PAM:authentication acct="root" exe="/usr/sbin/userhelper" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=? res=failed)' I did 'ps aux' to see what processes are started: getproxy is immediately 'defunct'ed igyn 21212 3.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 11:01 0:00 [getproxy] <defunct> then yum-updatesd-helper is launched and 'defunct'ed afterwards ... root 21229 0.0 0.3 168500 7048 pts/0 RN 11:01 0:00 /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/libexec/yum-updatesd-helper --check --dbus root 21229 101 0.0 0 0 pts/0 ZN 11:01 0:06 [yum-updatesd-he] <defunct> Expected results: puplet launches auth dialog for root user and after succesfull auth shows available updates.
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