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Description of problem: When trying edit sabayon profile through VNC, got fatal error alert and sabayon crashed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sabayon-2.29.92-3.el6 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Connect to the remote machine through VNC 2. Start Sabayon and create any profile (if you don't have any) 3. Click Edit Actual results: Fatal error alert followed by crash of sabayon Expected results: Opening new window with session and no crash Additional info: Terminal output: " MainThread 2011/10/06 08:15:59.5590 (admin-tool): Creating profiles dialog MainThread 2011/10/06 08:15:59.6196 (admin-tool): Starting main loop MainThread 2011/10/06 08:16:02.0610 (USER): Starting to edit profile 'aaa' No protocol specified Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/libexec/sabayon-session", line 26, in <module> import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display MainThread 2011/10/06 08:16:02.3410 (admin-tool): Got fatal error: sabayon-session exited with a FATAL ERROR (exit code 1) MainThread 2011/10/06 08:16:02.6255 (USER): Finishing editing profile MainThread 2011/10/06 08:16:02.6262 (admin-tool): Terminating main loop MainThread 2011/10/06 08:16:02.6262 (admin-tool): Exiting abnormally; dumping log due to a fatal error Dumped debug log to /root/sabayon-debug-log-2011-10-06-08-16-02.txt "
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(In reply to comment #0) > When trying edit sabayon profile through VNC, got fatal error alert and sabayon > crashed. Does it work in real X session? Is the VNC session running under ordinary user or root? Do you get consolehelper prompt for root password if VNC is running as user? > RuntimeError: could not open display This looks like a Xephyr or a kind of fork issue... If you run `Xephyr :5` (choose the free display number), does it work?