Bug 486644

Summary:	openSUSE Factory GNOME LiveCD i586-i686 Build0018 Asks for Root Password
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2	Reporter:	Jags FL <Jags_FL>
Component:	Live Medium	Assignee:	Vincent Untz <vuntz>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P1 - Urgent	CC:	casualprogrammer, rastislav.krupansky
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Description Jags FL 2009-03-18 23:23:19 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090318 Minefield/3.6a1pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Ubiquity/0.1.4

While trying to install openSUSE factory from openSUSE Factory GNOME LiveCD i586-i686 Build0018, Live-installer asks for a root password.

So far I've tried root, linux, opensuse, novell, gnome etc and none of 'em working. Also tried changing password but its not working either as it changes password for user "linux" not "root".

- jags / March 18, '09

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2009-03-19 00:25:46 UTC

The password actually seems to be blank ie just hit return.

Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2009-03-19 00:29:03 UTC

However, it should not ask for a root password at all.  The launcher misparses the Exec line in the .desktop - it tries to run -- gnomesu -- /sbin/yast2 live-installer afaict.

gnome-desktop bug perhaps?

Comment 3 JP Rosevear 2009-03-19 00:30:08 UTC

Jags FL, running 'gnomesu -- /sbin/yast2 live-installer' on the command line and using a blank password should work around for now.

Comment 4 Vincent Untz 2009-03-19 02:41:37 UTC

Removed the workaround we added in gnome-session to make it work with gnomesu (which is now breaking it...). Submitted to oS:F.

Will also fix glib/gnome-desktop to do something better, but the immediate problem is now fixed.

Comment 5 Vincent Untz 2009-03-19 03:28:32 UTC

The "real" bug was actually in libgnomesu. Fixed now.

Comment 6 Vincent Untz 2009-03-19 03:28:44 UTC

*** Bug 479864 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Jags FL 2009-03-19 11:36:06 UTC

JP Rosevear , Thanks running " 'gnomesu -- /sbin/yast2 live-installer' on the command line " did work.

Comment 8 Magnus Boman 2009-04-05 05:29:17 UTC

*** Bug 492007 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9 Bernhard Wiedemann 2016-04-15 09:33:57 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (486644) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/8217 Factory / gnome-session
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/8221 Factory / libgnomesu