On 2/25/2017 2:48 PM, Tom wrote: > I still do not think that what you see is Firefox related. It is not directly related, I now have discovered. I wish I had snapshotted the message at the time it happened, it indicated that yast2 task was blocked, but now I believe this was a gnome systemd ? intercepted popup. > Are you trying to use Yast2 remotely from another machine? If so, how > do you log in? Ssh/VNC/.....? No, this was yast2 on the same machine. I logged in the normal login in level 5. > To give you head start for further follow up, here is little Yast2 > trivia if you run on local machine: > * Yast2 needs to be started as root yes > * on SuSE, sudo does not forward X traffic, so running: sudo yast2 > will start Yast2 in text (ncurses) mode. You might not like that. actually it failed. > * To get Yast2 to come in X GUI, use following commands: > - become root: su > - start Yast2: yast2 This failed too, both with the same failure:
[user@linux /tmp]$ sudo yast2 root's password: No protocol specified QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0 /usr/sbin/yast2: line 440: 570 Aborted $y2ccbin $Y2UI_ARGS "$@" > If you need to run yast on remote machine and want X GUI, The best way > is to use VNC. > Hope it helps, Tomas I have used VNC, it works well. I appreciate the help. Thanks for the comments, I hope what I have shared here helps? Randall _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
