Can you still reproduce this? ** Changed in: unity Status: New => Incomplete
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1275076 Title: pkexec cannot be used in Unity! Status in Unity: Incomplete Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: polkit's pkexec replacement for gksu/gksudo, does not work in unity, nothing appears to happen. The error can be seen by launching Ubuntu 12.04 or 12.10 (and possibly 13.10), opening a terminal, and typing "unity --replace", then launching an app requiring pkexec in the dash. The error "Refusing to render service to dead parents." is shown upon launch, and nothing appears to happen on the desktop. I can confirm this happens in both Precise and Quantal, and perhaps (untested) in Saucy. It doesn't happen in Trusty, as of 30 Jan. This affects quite a few applications, and prevents them from running, and also affects mine. For the mean time I'll fix it by using gksudo in my .desktop files for Ubuntu only, but it's only a matter of time until gksudo is deprecated, and removed from the PPAs. Update: if you adopt gparteds method from a bash script, it does work. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1275076/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : dx-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp