On Friday 25 December 2009 13:05:49 Patrick Boutilier wrote: > On 12/25/2009 07:35 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > <snip> > > >> If you get a user console, then do "su" to get the root console, then it > >> should work. If you do "su -", I don't think it'd work as "su -" change > >> the environment to use root's. > > > > You've lost me. Surely to do updates I *do* want to be root, in root's > > environment? > > environment as in environment variables. Check the differences from the > output of the set command for instance when switching to root using > > su > > and > > su - > OK,I understand what you are saying, but it still doesn't explain why it worked in F11, but not in F12. I'm trying to understand what has changed. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20091225/068a0362/attachment.bin
