On 1/30/2014 1:32 AM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > When I start yumex as user it displays but stops with an error message > that the backend is not running. > > However "yumex --root" starts and runs normally. > > It is Centos 6.5 64 bit and using XFCE running in virtualbox if that > matters. > > Any suggestion as to what I am missing? is there a service associated with yumex? chkconfig --list |grep -i yum will list any such. if there is one, then... chkconfig yumex on service yumex start (replace yumex with the service name) (note the above is purely conjecture, I've never used yumex, I just use yum...) -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast