gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

[Simo Sorce]

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 12:22 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On 12/23/11 5:14 AM, Eric Smith wrote:
> > I wrote:
> >  > Now if I try to launch gsmartcontrol from the Gnome Shell, I get
> >  > the prompt from userhelper for my password, but it fails to run.
> >  > From the command line, the same thing happens, but at least it
> >  > shows the error message "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0".
> >
> > I withdraw the question. After rebooting the system, gsmartcontrol and
> > gparted both work fine. I'm not sure what went wrong before.
> 
> I am.
> 
> You moved between networks, which caused your hostname to change [1].
[..]
> [1] - This is debateably correct.

Sorry I can't resist saying that changing hostname automatically after
boot is *always* a bad idea and is not correct.

It should never happen by default, possibly not without mandatory manual
oversight, and if automatic behavior is really badly wanted for some
obscure reason it should be an option an admin must enable explicitly.

IMO. I really do not want to start a flame, but this hostname problem
(and related /etc/hosts issues through our RHL/Fedora history) is
something that I hate since forever.

Please feel free to ignore this OT and go on with the discussion :)

Simo.

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