Bug 223341

Summary:	If the root .Xauthority key is bad, yast2 invisibly fails to launch
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	E-mail List <gnome-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P4 - Low
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Bryce Nesbitt 2006-11-22 19:27:59 UTC

After upgrade from 10.0 to 10.1, yast no longer will start from the Gnome GUI.  It asks for the root password, then exits with no trace.

Starting yast or yast2 from a root console works fine, with no error messges.

Nothing appears in ~/.xsession-errors

Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2006-11-23 14:07:40 UTC

Did you turn on "high security" mode in yast?  What are the permisions of gnomesu?

ls -al /opt/gnome/bin/gnomesu

Comment 2 Bryce Nesbitt 2006-11-23 19:00:44 UTC

Almost everything is at the defaults -I have no idea what "high security mode" is.

# ls -al /opt/gnome/bin/gnomesu
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 7748 2006-05-02 18:20 /opt/gnome/bin/gnomesu

Comment 3 Jon Nelson 2006-11-26 02:24:48 UTC

This is a problem for me too, although it was not an upgrade but a fresh install of 10.1, which as of this moment is also fully up-to-date.

Yes, permissions mode 'secure' causes this problem, 'easy' does not. There needs to be a fix for this, kdesu works just fine with 'secure' but not gnomesu.

Comment 4 Christian Boltz 2006-11-30 00:21:10 UTC

Workaround: add the following line to /etc/permissions.local:
    /opt/gnome/lib/libgnomesu/gnomesu-pam-backend      root:root      4755
(taken from permissons.easy) and run SuSEconfig.

This is fixed on 10.2, for 10.1 it's a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 175616 ***

Comment 5 Bryce Nesbitt 2007-02-14 17:05:15 UTC

My 10.2 settings are set to, and always were set to, "Easy".
I see but cannot explain:

bryce@hardhat:~> /opt/gnome/bin/gnomesu
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
(gnome-terminal:21485): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:  

/etc/permissions.local contains:
# example:
#/usr/local/bin/mtr         root.root       4755
/opt/gnome/lib/libgnomesu/gnomesu-pam-backend      root:root      4755

Comment 6 JP Rosevear 2007-02-14 17:16:38 UTC

Aha, there was a propsenity for bad keys in the X cookies at one point, try removing ~/.Xauthority and logging back in.

Comment 7 JP Rosevear 2007-02-14 17:18:08 UTC

Closing this out and commenting in the original bug.

Comment 8 Bryce Nesbitt 2007-02-15 17:35:14 UTC

None of the above worked.

Deleting the .Xauthority for root, and rebooting, did the trick.

Please change the bug report to: "if the root .Xauthority key is bad, yast2 invisibly fails to launch after asking for the root password".  This is unresolved as of OpenSUSE 10.2.

Comment 9 JP Rosevear 2007-11-22 10:47:53 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 334382 ***