From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: I stopped up2date program when I was running it first time. It was after that I had send my package profile to RHN. Up2date asked what packages I would like to update. I didn't want to up2date them at that time, so cancelled the installation. Next time I started the program, I got "Unknown error." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run up2date once. 2. Cancel the installation after sending the info to RHN. 3. Run up2date again. Actual Results: Unknown error message appers Expected Results: Proper error message. Message which says: "Unkown error" has no value. Additional info:
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can you try `su`ing to root, and running the command that way? When invoked as a user process, the command `up2date` actually invoked a helper propgram called userhelper that asks for root's authentication info, then that starts up2date itself. if you can su to root and then run `/usr/sbin/up2date`, it will help determine if this is a userhelper problem, or a up2date problem.
How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce
I think this must be some sort of userhelper bug, as I dont present that error message anywhere in up2date itself. Also, the invocation shown in the screenshot would involve userhelper, so reassigning there.
i get the same error when starting kisdndock (which also uses consolehelper) the error message comes from consolehelper-gtk and is also shown when running consolehelper-gtk directly (not through an other name/symlink) i hope this is fixed for 8.1 already but it is really not easy to reproduce even if i saw it on several machines (i didn't have a single idea from where it came until recently)
probably related to bug #75834
usermode-1.67-1 fixes the problem with kisdndock for me
I haven't seen this error on RHL 9, so I guess this could be closed.