[CentOS] Yumex in 6.5 minimal -

Thu Jan 30 15:52:48 UTC 2014
Ljubomir Ljubojevic <centos at plnet.rs>

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.


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