On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 05:48:20AM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 04.31, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote:
I just noticed that YaST2 no longer runs in graphics mode. I only runs in it ncurses mode.
I am on SuSE 8.0 with KDE 3.02 with all the latest updates (except ssh since the update breaks X forwarding).
Any ideas? Is this a common problem?
One idea, if you're using "sux" to run yast. If you're running it some other way it could be other reasons, but I found a problem with sux.
I don't think it's sux since I have the same problem when I log into X as root.
There is a bug somewhere I can't quite track down, but for some reason, the X server loses the XDM authentication protocol at some stage. This causes sux to fail with "Protocol not supported by server". It tried the first protocol it can find in the cookie list, this happens to be XDM, and it fails.
Reason: no clue.
Quick fix: log out of all instances of X and remove .Xauthority both from your
Made no difference. -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net