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Package: gparted
Version: 0.11.0-1
Severity: serious
gparted includes 2 menu items. The desktop one quietly fails to launch
here, under KDE, even with gksu installed. This worked in 0.10.
Exec=gksu /usr/sbin/gparted
was changed to
Exec=gparted-pkexec
Executing GParted by running gparted-pkexec in a console works, but
there is interactivity due to a password request:
$ gparted-pkexec
==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.gparted ===
Authentication is required to run the GParted Partition Editor
Authenticating as: root
Password:
==== AUTHENTICATION COMPLETE ===
======================
libparted : 2.3
======================
chealer@vinci:~/logs$
Furthermore, the Debian menu item, which uses su-to-root, apparently
does not show.
?package(gparted):\
needs="X11"\
section="Applications/System/Administration"\
title="GNOME partition editor"\
command="su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/gparted"\
icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/gparted.xpm"
The workaround I would recommend is to run kdesu gparted.
Related reports:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=548233
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612689
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
990 testing security.debian.org
990 testing ftp.ca.debian.org
500 unstable ftp.ca.debian.org
1 experimental ftp.ca.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
====================================-+-==============
libatkmm-1.6-1 (>= 2.22.1) | 2.22.6-1
libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~) | 2.13-24
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) | 1:4.6.2-12
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0) | 2.30.2-4
libglibmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 2.30.0) | 2.30.0-2
libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0) | 2.24.8-3
libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a (>= 1:2.24.0) | 1:2.24.2-1
libpangomm-1.4-1 (>= 2.27.1) | 2.28.4-1
libparted0debian1 (>= 2.2-1) | 2.3-8
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2) | 2.2.9-1.1
libstdc++6 (>= 4.6) | 4.6.2-12
Package's Recommends field is empty.
Suggests (Version) | Installed
============================-+-===========
xfsprogs |
reiserfsprogs |
reiser4progs |
jfsutils |
ntfsprogs |
dosfstools | 3.0.12-1
yelp | 2.30.1+webkit-1
kpartx |
dmraid |
dmsetup | 2:1.02.67-2
gpart | 0.1h-11+b1
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After more than a decade, I think I'll close this now.
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