hello, I have recently installed Fedora 7 on my machine & got it working for the most part ie...adding DVD, mp3 support etc...but now when I login to my user account from GDM into Gnome I am not able to use any programs that require root access. If the Package updater pops up with updates I click on view packages & it asks for my root password. I enter it & nothing happens & it does the same thing for all programs that need root access. I have tried disabling selinux, not installing selinux updates, deleting the user account & creating a completely new user account with a different user name & I have also reinstalled the OS because of this issue and here I am back full circle. I have tried running the program through a terminal. Loged in as root from my user account I tried running the command 'pup' for the package updater & I get the following info: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 31, in <module> import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display It was suggested to me from someone on a listserve to try this command 'xhost +localhost' & 'kdesu pup' so I did & got the following info: [awp@localhost ~]$ xhost +localhost localhost being added to access control list [awp@localhost ~]$ su root Password: [root@localhost awp]# xhost +localhost Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" [root@localhost awp]# kdesu pup Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified kdesu: cannot connect to X server :0.0 so neither command resolved the issue. Then it was suggested to that I was actually logging into root the wrong way. Do not ask me how since 'su root' has been the way i logged into root since the old red hat days. So they said I should try 'su - root' so I did. Well it turns out that 'su - root' does the same thing as 'su root' which is logs me into root & when I run the command 'pup ' or 'kdesu pup' I get the same result as above. Then they suggested useing just 'su' or just 'su -' to login to root. Well that does the same thing as 'su root' which is log me into root but when running 'pup' I get the same result as above. Please do not give me more ways to login as root. I can login to Gnome from GDM as root & run all programs that need root access. How do I get back access to root from my user account? -- Diolch yn fawr, Ashley