Comment 1 Samuel Mannehed 2017-03-14 16:49:26 CET

This is what the terminal says:

> $ sudo ./install-server
> [sudo] password for samuel: 
> No protocol specified
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
>   warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
> No protocol specified
> Could not start PyGTK. Using text mode fallback...

Comment 2 Aaron Sowry 2017-03-21 09:44:16 CET

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451 ..?

Comment 3 Pierre Ossman 2017-03-21 10:29:53 CET

Fun. I guess it is time for another rewrite of tl-setup then. :)

Comment 4 Pierre Ossman 2017-03-21 13:25:34 CET

(In reply to comment #2)
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451 ..?

The short summary is that running graphical applications as root is now forbidden. The suggested approach is some front-end/back-end solution, ideally using PolicyKit.

Comment 5 Pierre Ossman 2017-03-21 13:37:34 CET

We'll do a platform specific note before release with a suggested workaround.

Then we'll move this bug to Next for finding an automatic workaround that forces text mode.

After that we'll have to have a new discussion on where to go from there and when.

Comment 6 Karl Mikaelsson 2017-03-29 10:59:23 CEST

Platform specific note added. Moving to Next.

(Note to self: fix list of bugs in release notes.)

Comment 7 Samuel Mannehed 2017-04-06 14:45:01 CEST

Platform Specific Note looks good, workaround works.

Comment 8 Pierre Ossman 2019-05-15 12:45:00 CEST

This also affects RHEL now as they also have Wayland by default.

Comment 9 Pierre Ossman 2019-06-26 12:00:04 CEST

This blog post claims they have backtracked a bit and are working on allowing root process access to Xwayland at least:

https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2019/06/24/on-the-road-to-fedora-workstation-31/

Comment 10 Pierre Ossman 2019-07-02 10:20:54 CEST

This issue is more general than just Wayland. The issue is that Xwayland is configured in a very restrictive way, something that is fully possible with any modern X server. So we should detect and work around that, not do anything Wayland specific.

This bug is also about getting something working (e.g. text mode) and not getting full functionality. Bug 7358 has been created to fix this fully.

Comment 12 Pierre Ossman 2019-07-02 15:14:57 CEST

We're now properly falling back to text mode when we cannot find an xauth cookie. That should hopefully map nicely to the cases we're having problems with.

Comment 13 Samuel Mannehed 2019-07-09 11:48:12 CEST

Works well, release note looks good.

Verified the problem when running "tl-4.10.0-server/install-server" (Note: without 'sudo') and verified the fix when running "nightly/server-bundle/install-server". Tested on Fedora 30 with Wayland.

Comment 14 Samuel Mannehed 2019-07-09 11:48:49 CEST

We have to remember to remove the Platform Specific Note on release as well.