On 01/30/2014 10:50 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > 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...) > > When Yumex is started from GNOME, it asks for Authentication to start. If Xfce is unable to provide that Auth prompt Yumex may fail (I am guessing). I do not see any actual service, so I am guessing backend is that Auth stuff. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant