Description of problem: When gnome-system-log is selected from the Applications/System Tools sub-menu (item 'Log File Viewer'), it fails to start. Likewise, if 'gnome-system-log' is entered into the 'Run Application' field after pressing Alt-F2, then the log viewer is not displayed. If 'gnome-system-log' is entered at a shell prompt from a root log in, then the following error message is displayed in the terminal window: (logview:23644): gnome-system-log-CRITICAL **: Unable to parse arguments: Cannot open display: However, if 'gnome-system-log' is entered at a shell prompt of an ordinary, non-root user, then a dialog window is displayed asking for authentication, and the Log Viewer window is displayed as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-system-log-3.4.1-2.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time that gnome-system-log is started using one of the three methods above. Rebooting does not help. Steps to Reproduce: 1. See the above description of the problem. 2. 3. Actual results: gnome-system-log fails to start. Expected results: The Log Viewer window should be displayed. Additional info:
What I get in the shell is something else: Refusing to render service to dead parents.
Tracked this down to the fact that gnome-shell double-forks when launching apps. Patch at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675789
I can reproduce the problem with alt-f2 in Shell and from the menus in fallback mode, but not from the overview in Shell.
mclasen: I suspect the bug initially reported - it fails to run from the menus in fallback mode - is not the same as the bug you refer to upstream...
I don't know, I haven't tried in fallback mode. Possible that gnome-panel has the same issue when launching applications.
I did not think to report it, but the problem was in fallback mode. I am not seeing it in "normal" (non-fallback) mode for Gnome.
I am experiencing the same issue in fallback mode. It doesn't prompt for authentication like other system apps.
in Fallback mode I was able to su at a terminal, NOT su - then run gnome-system-log and it worked...
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