smart returns "unknown error" on fresh install in Fedora 7

Tue Jun 5 03:29:47 PDT 2007

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:25:27 -0500
Richard Hendershot <rshendershot at mchsi.com> attempted to state:

> I have the same problem on our two computers.  Both are upgrades not
> fresh installs.  One is i386 and the other x86_64.
> 
> Something in the way it's using console-helper.
> 
> I'm able to run from a command-line
> 
> su -
> smart --gui
> 
What I did to get around this problem was to replace /etc/pam.d/smart-root
with a  copy one of /etc/pam.d/system-config-date. Not sure of the security
implications, but it did work.

-- 
Steven I. Usdansky, PhD
Traveling Geologist
Registered Linux user #360200

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