Description of problem: preupgrade can't start because it can't open the display Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): preupgrade-1.1.10-1.fc16.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start a KDE session 2. Run konsole 3. In konsole, run preupgrade Actual results: Authentication dialog appears asking for my root password. Then, in konsole No protocol specified Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/preupgrade/preupgrade-gtk.py", line 53, in <module> import gtk File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display Expected results: Additional info: xterm can start from the same konsole, so there isn't a problem with the DISPLAY variable, which is set to: :0
I can't reproduce this now.