Re: gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

2012-02-10 Thread Adam Jackson
On 1/3/12 12:22 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: You moved between networks, which caused your hostname to change [1]. This meant that the xauth cookie for your current session no longer matched, because it embeds the hostname, because the spec says that's what you do. We set up X with two levels of

Re: gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

2012-02-10 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 05:20:50PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: On 1/3/12 12:22 PM, Adam Jackson wrote: You moved between networks, which caused your hostname to change [1]. This meant that the xauth cookie for your current session no longer matched, because it embeds the hostname, because the

Re: gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

2012-01-03 Thread Adam Jackson
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

Re: gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

2012-01-03 Thread 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

Re: gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

2012-01-03 Thread Adam Jackson
On 1/3/12 12:49 PM, Simo Sorce wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 12:22 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: 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

Re: gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

2011-12-23 Thread Eric Smith
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.

gsmartcontrol, gparted problems with userhelper and X credentials?

2011-12-22 Thread Eric Smith
Recently my package for gsmartcontrol was approved, and it is now in Fedora 16. I was using Fedora 14 on my desktop system when I did the packaging work. I did test it on a Fedora 16 system before submission. Since then I've done a fresh install of Fedora 16 on my desktop. Now if I try to