Bug 679392 - system-config-users complains no X is running (?!)
Summary: system-config-users complains no X is running (?!)
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 679393
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: system-config-users
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Nils Philippsen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-22 13:25 UTC by Horst H. von Brand
Modified: 2011-02-26 01:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-02-26 01:16:49 UTC
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2011-02-22 13:25:44 UTC 
Description of problem:
Running system-config-users from a Terminal under XFCE first asks for the root password, after accepting that it goes:

$ system-config-users 
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyInvalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keysystem-config-users requires a currently running X server.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
system-config-users-1.2.107-2.fc15.noarch

How reproducible:
Tried twice to run it via XFCE Menu -> Administration -> Users and Groups to no avail, tried from a Terminal to check.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. system-config-users
2. Give root password when asked
3.
  
Actual results:
Goes down

Expected results:
Configure users and groups

Additional info:
It looks like my account has issues with permissions here (i.e., I can't use NetworkManager to configure network interfaces, wodim complains it can't access /dev/cdrw), that's why I tried to look into this here.
Comment 1 Horst H. von Brand 2011-02-26 01:16:49 UTC 
The underlying problem seems to be that ConsoleKit thinks that I'm not connected locally:

$ ck-list-sessions 
Session1:
	unix-user = '501'
	realname = 'Horst H. von Brand'
	seat = 'Seat2'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ':0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = FALSE
	on-since = '2011-02-26T01:09:14.777587Z'
	login-session-id = '1'

This is being discussed at #679393

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 679393 ***
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