Bug 706864 - Subscription-manager-gui command displayed Traceback and RuntimeError for runlevel 3
Summary: Subscription-manager-gui command displayed Traceback and RuntimeError for run...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: subscription-manager
Version: 6.2
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
: 6.2
Assignee: Bryan Kearney
QA Contact: spandey
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Blocks: rhsm-rhel62
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Reported: 2011-05-23 09:51 UTC by spandey
Modified: 2015-04-23 23:56 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-08-15 15:51:20 UTC
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Description spandey 2011-05-23 09:51:13 UTC 
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
3/3

Prerequisites :
Client : Rhel5.7 with following subscription manager client 
subscription-manager-firstboot-0.95.5.18-1.git.4.364aa10.el5

subscription-manager-0.95.5.18-1.git.4.364aa10.el5

subscription-manager-gnome-0.95.5.18-1.git.4.364aa10.el5

Steps to Reproduce : 
Boot client in run level 3
Execute subscription-manager-gui command on root console.

Expected Result : 
No Traceback should display .
Proper message should display for “Xserver” requirement .

Actual Result : 
Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/sbin/subscription-manager-gui", line 30, in ?

    import gtk

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76, in ?

    _init()

  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in _init

    _gtk.init_check()

RuntimeError: could not open display
Comment 1 Chris Duryee 2011-05-23 14:19:56 UTC 
This is working properly, since subscription-manager-gui cannot run without X. However, a better error message would be nice. Moving to 6.2.
Comment 3 Chris Duryee 2011-08-15 15:51:20 UTC 
I tested this against a few other pygtk apps (caribou, system-config-date, meld) and they exhibit the same behavior. After seeing the other apps, I believe the error message should stay as-is, since it is more informative than a generic "cannot find xserver" message.

marking as NOTABUG, feel free to alter if you disagree though.
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