Strange things after latest updates

[Antonio M]

2008/7/27 G.Wolfe Woodbury <ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us>

> Antonio M wrote:
> > I upgraded my F9 this morning after 4 days.
> > Now I can connect to my wireless network (WPA) if I use only
> > kernel-2.6.27-0.156.rc0.git4.fc10.i686
> >
> > this two kernels prevent from connecting to my wireless network (if
> > WPA): if no security (i.e.open network) I can connect
> > kernel-2.6.27-0.180.rc0.git11.fc10.i686
> > kernel-2.6.27-0.166.rc0.git8.fc10.i686
> >
> > Furthermore some applications are working only as root (for example, if
> > I start Yumex I get the root password request and then nothing happens)
> > I started Yumex on a terminal and I get:
> >  yumex
> > No protocol specified
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/share/yumex/yumex.py", line 29, in <module>
> >     import gtk,gobject
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line
> > 79, in <module>
> >     _init()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line
> > 67, in _init
> >     _gtk.init_check()
> > RuntimeError: could not open display
> >
> > As root it plays fine.
>
> How are you getting to root?   I find the /bin/su is very broken on
> today's rawhide, and most of the su based tools are broken.
>
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> G.Wolfe Woodbury
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after opening a terminal window I digit yumex, then I get the password
request window where I enter the root password...and then I get all the
warnings....and nothing else.
I suppose that it is connected to what you have found.

Tnx

-- 
Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag
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