Strange things after latest updates

G.Wolfe Woodbury ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us
Sun Jul 27 10:12:42 UTC 2008


Antonio M wrote:
> I upgraded my F9 this morning after 4 days.
> Now I can connect to my wireless network (WPA) if I use only
> kernel-2.6.27-0.156.rc0.git4.fc10.i686
> 
> this two kernels prevent from connecting to my wireless network (if
> WPA): if no security (i.e.open network) I can connect
> kernel-2.6.27-0.180.rc0.git11.fc10.i686
> kernel-2.6.27-0.166.rc0.git8.fc10.i686
> 
> Furthermore some applications are working only as root (for example, if
> I start Yumex I get the root password request and then nothing happens)
> I started Yumex on a terminal and I get:
>  yumex
> No protocol specified
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/share/yumex/yumex.py", line 29, in <module>
>     import gtk,gobject
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line
> 79, in <module>
>     _init()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line
> 67, in _init
>     _gtk.init_check()
> RuntimeError: could not open display
> 
> As root it plays fine.

How are you getting to root?   I find the /bin/su is very broken on
today's rawhide, and most of the su based tools are broken.

-- 
G.Wolfe Woodbury




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