Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 857229
RC3-Alpha Xfce spin: yumex doesn't open (polkit authentication dialog fails to pop-up) on live-cd.
Last modified: 2012-09-19 10:38:03 EDT
Description of problem: running live-cd the polkit authentication dialog doesn't pop-up when launching yumex so it doesn't work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F18 RC3-Alpha Xfce spin, yumex 3.0.6 How reproducible: always here, but my system is very old with 1GB memory and although I'm careful with the testing I see that these F18 early spins really overload it so I don't know if it influences or not. Steps to Reproduce: see description. 1. 2. 3. Actual results: see description. Expected results: polkit authentication dialog should pop-up or as there's no root password on live-cd then yumex maybe should work right away. Additional info:
Does it silently fail, or...?
This is how yumex works in a F17 installation: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-09142012-012835pm.php On the live-Cd, since there's no password for root, yumex is stuck on that screen but *without the authentication box*. yumex is there waiting so I think it's some polkit issue that in the live environment should allow yumex without asking for password (maybe, I don't understand about this).
It looks like you are hit by this one https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=834494 if the liveuser is not member of the wheel group, then polkit don't work and is hanging. su - usermod -G liveuser,wheel liveuser should make it work
Just confirming that that makes it work.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 834494 ***