Bug 105010

Summary:	Accessing YaST2 through GNOME menus fails (running by gksu)
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Travis Luckenbaugh <t10784>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	SUSE Other
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Travis Luckenbaugh 2005-08-16 18:30:00 UTC

Accessing YaST2 through GNOME menus fails.  System asks for root password, but
it does nothing afterward.  Opening a terminal, using su -, and typing yast2
functions as expected.

Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2005-08-16 19:56:56 UTC

I'll try it tomorrow...

Comment 2 Lukas Ocilka 2005-08-17 06:56:16 UTC

I was unable to reproduce that. It worked as expected, so it seems that is is
not a general problem in GNOME.

Could you, please try to run `/sbin/yast2` in xterm or any other terminal
emulation and paste here what you get (error messages in the terminal)? Also,
please attach YaST logs.

For more information about YaST logs, see FAQ:
http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug

Thanks

Comment 3 Lukas Ocilka 2005-08-17 20:29:56 UTC

Information sent via e-mail:

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In my original bug report, I stated that yes, it does work from a
terminal.  I can now add that it also works in KDE (In other words,
xterm + /sbin/yast2 works and kdesu + yast2 works but gksu + yast2
does not)
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Travis, could you, please, try to inspect YaST logs whether they increase
somehow if you run the YaST using the gksu? Could you, please, attach logs if
they do?

Your problem must be somehow specific, because I was unable to reproduce it with
the information I had and nobody else have reproduced or reported until now.
Nevertheless I don't say that there can't be in YaST or gksu. We just don't have
enough information to find it and/or fix it.

Please, try to run the gksu program with another application than /sbin/yast2.
If it fails with the same result, problem would be probably in the gksu. If it
doesn't fail, we will appreciate `strace gksu ...` output.

Thanks

Comment 4 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-02 08:00:11 UTC

If you reproduce this error on some latest Beta, please, reopen it.