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--- Begin Message ---Package: gparted Version: 0.3.3-2 Severity: normal The subject says it all: if you try to run gparted as a non-root user, gparted just puts up a message saying "you must be root". Thing is, I wanted to repartition an external device to which my non-root user has read/write access. Stefan -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gparted depends on: ii gksu 2.0.0-4 graphical frontend to su ii libatk1.0-0 1.18.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.4.10-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-4 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.12.13-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libglibmm-2.4-1c2a 2.12.10-0.1 C++ wrapper for the GLib toolkit ( ii libgtk2.0-0 2.10.13-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a 1:2.10.10-0.2 C++ wrappers for GTK+ 2.4 (shared ii libpango1.0-0 1.16.5-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libparted1.7-1 1.7.1-5.1 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-2 PNG library - runtime ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libuuid1 1.40.2-1 universally unique id library ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.8-2 X cursor management library ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxfixes3 1:4.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio ii libxi6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.1-1 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.2-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii menu 2.1.35 generates programs menu for all me ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime gparted recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message --------BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The kernel requires root access to manipulate the in memory partition table. Simply having write permission to the block device is not enough. Therefore this is not and can not be a supported configuration for (g)parted, so I am closing this bug. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSO5/1AAoJEJrBOlT6nu75rcoH/0Ogl9qIllqr5mks3c876neo uwrNsoC4Pva10mT2Bf5/iY5iS8gWYCHNox9ufcWgO3hALn5Gc1uYcVRHOlH8n0JZ fAW7J0rZSqPKitKq0jhx8Pt7EqCZYkAj8UNNQOZrGezYCICYucgvimfjonVXIJ6o QNbkbo8Y0JwkIFr7YI4MoSBcmpkfqOFvShojpnuFdSBeGNDn4JX6cLA5ofidApOa f0j0i1HoJ1O1JP7lQbjyJHZkUsdFOYkqsR67dvn79n+pBd3QEts6qyZsC2Sdcyh4 TXPvVn/pRu+98e5EEEzwGgERZUrOYBxARzck8bNsIjyCCEOXGPw06o2A5AU0wQ4= =6Iqb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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