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.
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G.Wolfe Woodbury
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