Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 497249
system-config-printer troubleshooter doesn't work if you are root already
Last modified: 2010-01-11 11:07:45 EST
Description of problem: In a shell where you happen to already be logged in as root, run the system-config-printer tool, Help>Troubleshoot and go through the troubleshoot wizard to the point where it asks you to enable debugging. This is where it also normally asks you for the root password. If you are already running as root, the window just disappears and the shell says it did an exit(1). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): system-config-printer-1.1.7-1.fc11.x86_64 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. see above 2. 3. Actual results: exit(1) Expected results: enabling of debugging Additional info: Bug 496521 is where I noticed this, so if you need details on the specific printer involved, that is where you can find them.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I think this should be working OK with the 1.1.8-3.fc11 test update.
system-config-printer-1.1.10-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/system-config-printer-1.1.10-1.fc11
system-config-printer-1.1.10-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-printer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8108
system-config-printer-1.1.11-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-printer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8108
system-config-printer-1.1.12-4.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-printer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8108
system-config-printer-1.1.12-6.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-printer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8108
system-config-printer-1.1.12-8.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-printer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8108
system-config-printer-1.1.13-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-printer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8108
system-config-printer-1.1.13-2.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-printer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8108
system-config-printer-1.1.13-3.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update system-config-printer'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F11/FEDORA-2009-8108
system-config-printer-1.1.13-3.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.