hello, I have recently installed Fedora 7 on my machine & got it working for the most part ie...adding DVD, mp3 support etc...but now when I login to my user account from GDM into Gnome I am not able to use any programs that require root access. If the Package updater pops up with updates I click on view packages & it asks for my root password. I enter it & nothing happens & it does the same thing for all programs that need root access.

I have tried disabling selinux, not installing selinux updates, deleting the user account & creating a completely new user account with a different user name & I have also reinstalled the OS because of this issue and here I am back full circle. I have tried running the program through a terminal. Loged in as root from my user account I tried running the command 'pup' for the package updater & I get the following info: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified

It was suggested to me from someone on a listserve to try this command

'xhost +localhost' & 'kdesu pup' so I did & got the following info: [awp@localhost ~]$ xhost +localhost localhost being added to access control list [awp@localhost ~]$ su root Password: [root@localhost awp]# xhost +localhost Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified

[root@localhost awp]# kdesu pup Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified kdesu: cannot connect to X server :0.0 so neither command resolved the issue.

Then it was suggested to that I was actually logging into root the wrong way. Do not ask me how since 'su root' has been the way i logged into root since the old red hat days. So they said I should try 'su - root' so I did. Well it turns out that 'su - root' does the same thing as 'su root'

I have recently installed Fedora 7 on my machine & got it working for the most part ie...adding DVD, mp3 support etc...but now when I login to my user account from GDM into Gnome I am not able to use any programs that require root access. If the Package updater pops up with updates I click on view packages & it asks for my root password. I enter it & nothing happens & it does the same thing for all programs that need root access.

hello, I have recently installed Fedora 7 on my machine & got it working for the most part ie...adding DVD, mp3 support etc...but now when I login to my user account from GDM into Gnome I am not able to use any programs that require root access. If the Package updater pops up with updates I click on view packages & it asks for my root password. I enter it & nothing happens & it does the same thing for all programs that need root access. I have tried disabling selinux, not installing selinux updates, deleting the user account & creating a completely new user account with a different user name & I have also reinstalled the OS because of this issue and here I am back full circle. I have tried running the program through a terminal. Loged in as root from my user account I tried running the command 'pup' for the package updater & I get the following info: Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/pup", line 31, in <module> import gtk File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 76, in <module> _init() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in _init _gtk.init_check() RuntimeError: could not open display It was suggested to me from someone on a listserve to try this command 'xhost +localhost' & 'kdesu pup' so I did & got the following info: [awp@localhost ~]$ xhost +localhost localhost being added to access control list [awp@localhost ~]$ su root Password: [root@localhost awp]# xhost +localhost Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xhost: unable to open display ":0.0" [root@localhost awp]# kdesu pup Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified kdesu: cannot connect to X server :0.0 so neither command resolved the issue. Then it was suggested to that I was actually logging into root the wrong way. Do not ask me how since 'su root' has been the way i logged into root since the old red hat days. So they said I should try 'su - root' so I did. Well it turns out that 'su - root' does the same thing as 'su root' which is logs me into root & when I run the command 'pup ' or 'kdesu pup' I get the same result as above. Then they suggested useing just 'su' or just 'su -' to login to root. Well that does the same thing as 'su root' which is log me into root but when running 'pup' I get the same result as above. Please do not give me more ways to login as root. I can login to Gnome from GDM as root & run all programs that need root access. How do I get back access to root from my user account?

Ed Greshko wrote: >> How do I get back access to root from my user account? > > I think it would help if you login as yourself and simply type "xhost" and > post the output. Also the output of "env | grep DISP" may be useful. I have a distant memory of this kind of thing happening when something to do with the root login helper thing lost its suid root attribute. That password prompt thing is # ll /usr/sbin/userhelper -rws--x--x 1 root root 34224 2007-04-19 15:10 /usr/sbin/userhelper make sure it has the s for suid -Andy -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

alternatively TR from Tucson Linux Group sugested: root is tring to open X on :0.0. Are you sure that is where X is running? login in as root and look in /var/gdm and see the files X is using I have # ls -l total 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 45 Jun 26 15:23 :0.Xauth -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38 Jun 26 15:24 :0.Xservers If 0.0 is right for you , you'd have # ls -l total 8 -rw-r----- 1 root root 45 Jun 26 15:23 : 0.0.Xauth -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38 Jun 26 15:24 :0.0.Xservers And here is the output: [root@localhost ~]# cd /var/log/gdm [root@localhost gdm]# ls -l total 36 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1049 2007-06-27 08:32 : 0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1143 2007-06-27 08:31 :0.log.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1076 2007-06-27 08:21 :0.log.2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1230 2007-06-27 08:10 :0.log.3 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1076 2007-06-27 07:52 :0.log.4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1095 2007-06-23 22:07 : 20.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1095 2007-06-23 22:04 :20.log.1 On 6/27/07, Ashley Pritchard < linuxpen(a)gmail.com > wrote: > > here is that info: > > [awp@localhost ~]$ ll /usr/sbin/userhelper > -rws--x--x 1 root root 34060 2007-06-15 01:56 /usr/sbin/userhelper > > > On 6/27/07, Andy Green <andy(a)warmcat.com&gt; wrote: > > > > Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > >> How do I get back access to root from my user account? > > > > > > I think it would help if you login as yourself and simply type > > "xhost" and > > > post the output. Also the output of "env | grep DISP" may be > > useful. > > > > I have a distant memory of this kind of thing happening when something > > to do with the root login helper thing lost its suid root attribute. > > > > That password prompt thing is > > > > # ll /usr/sbin/userhelper > > -rws--x--x 1 root root 34224 2007-04-19 15:10 /usr/sbin/userhelper > > > > make sure it has the s for suid > > > > -Andy > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list(a)redhat.com > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > -- > Diolch yn fawr, Ashley -- Diolch yn fawr, Ashley

Ashley Pritchard wrote: > OK I was at work today & was thinking about what I was doing before my > problem of not being able to run programs as root from my user acct & > did a little bit of research on the issue. > In this process I cam over the suggestion to edit /root/.bashrc & add: > export XAUTHORITY= /home/awp/.Xauthority so I did. > The result was: export '/home/awp/.Xauthority': not a valid identifier > The next suggestion I found was to use the command '-d' which just did > not work at all because it was not recognized at all. > Then the next suggestion was to use xhost to verify that it is set to > permit connections from machine. The result was: > access control enabled, only autherized clients can connect > INET: localhost.localdomane > SI: localuser:awp > > Then the next suggestion I found was back to 'xhost +localhost' before > useing su to log in to root & then doing 'export DISPLAY=:0' aft loging > in as root. Well this did not work better that the last time I used the > command xhost +localhost. > Then I found another suggestion which is to use the command 'xauth merge > /home/awp/.Xauthority' > The result: > xauth merge /home/awp/.Xauthority > xauth: creating new authority file /home/awp/.Xauthority > xauth: (argv):1: merge: unable to open file /home/awp/.Xauthority > > So none of the suggestions seem that I could find seemed to work for me > & the last suggestion was to uninstall & reinstall X. I did not want to > do this so I started thinking & recalling what exactly I did before this > issue occurred. Other than installing DVD & mp3 support I was messing > with xnest attempting to open GDM in a nested window so that I could > graphically login as root via my user account. So I uninstalled > xorg-x11-server-xnest but that did not resolve my issue. > > Then I remembered that I had changed my intel integrated graphics driver > from the 'Intel - Experimental mode setting driver for Intel integrated > graphics chipsets' to the 'i810 intel integrated graphics chipset > including i810, i815, 830m, 845G, 852GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM, 945GM'. So I > switched the graphics driver back the the 'experimental' driver. That > did not work either. > > Then I had found a file /root/.bash_history which contains the history > of bash commands made in the terminal. A series of commands that I had > entered jarred my memory. I was attempting to get another desktop > manager installed call Enlightenment & int the process one of the > dependencies was XFree86. When I attempted to install XFree86 it > required several directories to be created: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir and > /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth so I had created those directories. And that is > when thiss issue started occurring. > > SO THE SOLUTION TO MY ISSUE: was to delete /X11R6/bin/xauth & /mkfontdir > in the /usr directory. > Now I am able to use su root to login as root from my user account once > again so that I can use programs that require root. > > Thanks for all the attempts to help me. > You didn't install XFree86 from an RPM, did you? Both Xorg and XFree86 are X server packages. As you have discovered, they do not co-exist too well together. You may discover other strange problems down the road. It all depends on what files from Xorg were replaced with files from XFree86, and how they differ. Xorg was forked off of XFree86 when the licence for the XFree86 package was changed, and from what I have read, most of the developers moved to the Xorg, and development on XFree86 ground to a halt. You may be better off in the long run to re-install the Xorg packages after removing XFree86. (It is possible to use rpm to install an already installed package again, but I do not think yum supports it.) Mikkel -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list