i am in ssh console logged in as root. When i start yast and got to Software->Software Management i get the following message:
“Root Privileges Needed. This module must be run as root …”
If i go to Network Services -> Mail Server i get the message:
Error YaST can only configure Postfix and Sendmail, but neither of them is installed.
Belive me, there is a sendmail running on it.
Last thing i did with yast was to install a mariadb.
This is a openSuSE 13.1 that runs on a vitual server at my hoster.
Did you run “yast2” or “yast”?
The former may try to open an Xorg connection (when it starts additional modules at least) and fail therefore, the latter one should just run in text mode.
This is a openSuSE 13.1 that runs on a vitual server at my hoster.
Please note that 13.1 is not supported anymore since years.
You should consider upgrading…
But that should be irrelevant to your problem of course.
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 18:56:02 +0000, chrzimmer8 wrote:
> i am in ssh console logged in as root. When i start yast and got to
> Software->Software Management i get the following message:
> “Root Privileges Needed. This module must be run as root …”
Sounds like you’re not root. What’s the output from ‘whoami’?
Is a common problem.
By default, although you may log in as root, you cannot execute applications as root.
Modify your SSH configuration to allow (There are plenty of online references about this, probably also in the openSUSE documentation)
thanks so far for your input. I appreciate your help very much. Let me answer to your posts
i know this is old and not supported, but want to keep it
i am in text mode, change from normal user to root by “su” and then open yast by the command “yast”. whoami says: root
i ws able to use yast before with the method described in 2) so it can’t be something with my ssh configuration
today i was trying again. I ignored the notice about missing root privileges an pressed “continue”. I just hab a look if a certain package was installed under “Software Managment” but didn’ change a thing. When i was quitting yast it just died and i had to kill the session from another console. I then found the following error message on the first console where yast was running:
*** Error in `/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base’: corrupted double-linked list: 0x000000000414b370 ***
I tried to start yast2 to see if this changes something. From now on the behavior changed, no matter if i start yast or yast2: it now shows a slightly different message:
“YaST2 Control Center is not running as root. You can only see modules that do not require root privileges.”
And unfortunately it does excatly what it says: now i see only a 3 points in the left menu bar grrr
grrr