On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 20:26, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 13:18, Mark Gordon wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 12:40, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > 
> > > Now though, I can't load Red-Carpet either.  It loads, but doesn't
> > > appear (i.e. I get past the root password box and red-carpet creates an
> > > appicon, but no visible program).  I am going to take a stab and guess
> > > that the invisible red-carpet and the invisible gnome panel are related
> > > to the same missing libraries or misconfiguration.  Does anyone have any
> > > ideas or can offer any help?
> > 
> > Which distribution are you using, 
> 
> Red Hat 7.2
> 
> > and which Red Carpet version do you
> > have installed? 
> 
> 1.4.3-1.ximian.4
> 
> 
> > The most general solution would probably be to run Red
> > Carpet from a terminal window as root, using su or sudo.
> 
> It worked running it using su.  When I ran it as a regular user, it
> presented me with the dialog requesting the root password, which I
> entered, but then, it never appeared on screen (though it generated an
> appicon in Window Maker).  Skipping the dialog, by launching it from an
> su mode terminal worked fine, though.  (I still wonder what happened to
> my gnome panel)

I'm not sure why it's not working except when run as root.  1.4.3 on Red
Hat 7.2 works fine for me, as non-root providing the root password when
prompted.  I don't really have enough information to debug the panel
problem, and that might be better suited to the users@ list.

-Mark Gordon

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