Description of Problem: The man page of up2date says: "--nox do not even attempt to display the gui." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.7.86- 7.x.3 How Reproducible: Always Additional Information: I want to run up2date when logged in REMOTELY via ssh (using PuTTY, a well-known Windoze client). I have X installed and running on the machine, but I do NOT what to use it when logged in remotely. The man page says that I can use a command line interface with up2date-nox or up2date --nox. But instead, I get: [root@localhost]# up2date-nox The application 'up2date-nox' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. [root@localhost# up2date --nox The application 'up2date' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. What part of "do not even attempt to display the gui" does the program fail to understand?
I too am seeing this problem: [mhyne@panda mhyne]$ [mhyne@panda mhyne]$ up2date -u Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [mhyne@panda mhyne]$ up2date -u --nox Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [mhyne@panda mhyne]$ up2date -u -nox Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [mhyne@panda mhyne]$ up2date-nox -u Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [mhyne@panda mhyne]$ up2date Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [mhyne@panda mhyne]$
In my hast I did the above as non-root. Root gives the same errors.
recent versions in concert with recent userhelper packages, should handle this correctly.