[lug] Annoying new behavior in RedHat/Krud 7.2

[Elyse Grasso]

I upgraded to 7.2 yesterday. I haven't had time to track down all the things 
that were slightly bent by the upgrade (as opposed to broken) but I have 
noticed that the Xserver is now being annoying.

I am used to logging in as me, suing to root (or other users for specific 
applications) and running various GUI apps. Now when I try to do this I get 
messages like:

[emgrasso at xerxes emgrasso]$ su -
Password:
[root at xerxes root]# linuxconf
Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Error message from remadmin :Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to 
ServerError message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0

Does anyone know what I need to change to return the server to its previous 
behavior?

A related annoyance is that linuxconf no longer appears in the menus where it 
used to.  I have had it loaded for ages and use it daily to change my network 
interface settings when I move between home and work. I have heard that 
linuxconf is now deprecated, but have seen no announcements about what we are 
supposed to use instead.  

(I have a pcmcia wireless ethernet card, and a modem card that get swapped in 
and out of  one pcmcia slot, and a regular ethernet card that stays in the 
other pcmcia slot but switches between a hardcoded ethernet address at hiome 
and DHCP at work. Linuxconf followed by a reboot is the fastest way I have 
found to get the ip addresses, routing and dns settings to do what they are 
supposed to. Trying to use DHCP at home interferes with the ppp gateway and 
makes samba and nfs configuration messy. )