William Hooper said: > > Bevan C. Bennett said: >> William Hooper wrote: >>> Now that was a machine I SSH'ed into with X-Forwarding, >>> doesn't have X installed locally. So I tried on my laptop (with X): >> >> Do both systems have X installed? It looks like either one -not- having >> X will suppress consolehelper's graphical form. If you just run >> /usr/bin/up2date as yourself, what happens then (I get a popup window)? > > In the SSH case, no. Only one has X installed. In the second case > (below) I'm doing it on a local machine with X. Using SSH I get a text > prompt, GUI on local. I'll see what I can do about sneaking a laptop out > of work tonight, that way I can try it on two machines w/X. OK here goes: Two Fedora Core 1 machines, both with X and using sudo (that's important)... I get the same error as you: [whooper@laptop whooper]$ sudo up2date Password: X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. The application 'up2date' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. BUT... it does work using su, instead: [whooper@laptop whooper]$ su -c up2date So... I don't know what we're chasing. Using sudo on xterm works from the SSH connection. Using sudo and consolehelper works locally. I would suggest filing a bug against userhelper. -- William Hooper
