From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020712 Description of problem: (Tool polishing) redhat-config-soundcard crashes when you attempt to run it in a text console with the following newbie confusing message. [root@inspiron8000 root]# redhat-config-soundcard Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-config-soundcard/redhat-config-soundcard.py", line 24, in ? import soundcard File "/usr/share/redhat-config-soundcard/soundcard.py", line 22, in ? import gtk File "/usr/src/build/120604-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/gtk/__init__.py", line 19, in ? RuntimeError: could not open display Would it be possible to automatically fall back to console sndconfig if X is not available? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-soundcard-0.9.4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "redhat-config-soundcard" in a text console without X. Actual Results: Crash message. Expected Results: Should fall back to sndconfig.
I don't want to kick off another program without telling the user what's happening. Instead, I have the program print a message saying that redhat-config-soundcard requires a currently running X server and suggests running sndconfig. Thanks for your report. Should be fixed in redhat-config-soundcard-0.9.7-1
Fix confirmed with redhat-config-soundcard-0.9.7-1.