Bug#923663: partitionmanager: does not start, permission denied

[Roger]

sudo is not configured here. Surely it should work with pkexec in Buster.


This message saying not to run it with sudo was posted at 
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/463352/how-to-run-kde-partition-manager-with-no-root-password-set 
but no suggested correct usage was forthcoming:
"Don't run partitionmanager like this. Things might break if you use 
sudo (note, I am the maintainer of KDE Partition Manager). – Andrius 
Štikonas 
 Aug 
27 '18 at 11:47 
"



Andrius Štikonas 
 is 
the maintainer at https://github.com/KDE/partitionmanager

Bug#923663: partitionmanager: does not start, permission denied

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Strange, I expected this to fail on my system, but it works perfectly
here (squeeze->wheezy->jessie->buster), with kdesudo config purged.
It also worked without kdesudo purged.  I'm using the standard Xorg
session rather than Wayland, on an up-to-date buster system as of
Fri, 29 Mar 2019 21:27:51 -0400

The commands triggered by the menu entry are:

 7789 ?Sl 0:00 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu -c 
KDE_FULL_SESSION=true XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus /usr/bin/partitionmanager 
--dontsu
 7793 pts/35   Ss+0:00 /usr/bin/sudo -u root 
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu_stub -

If I were to guess, maybe the su support is broken but sudo support is
intact?

Cheers,
Nicholas


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Bug#923663: partitionmanager: does not start, permission denied

[Roger]

I have tried to run partitionmanager on both testing and unstable 
systems. The permissions issue can be fixed with a policy file in 
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ and subsequently open it with


pkexec partitionmanager

But partitionmanager has other problems. After attempting to start with 
pkexec it gives this message:


"pkexec partitionmanager qt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not 
connect to display Could not connect to any X display."


Defining a display makes no difference.

I've been advised not to run it with "su -c" but tried it as a test and 
it shows different errors :


"No support tools were found for file systems currently present on hard 
disks in this computer:


Partition



File System



Support Tools



URL

/dev/sda3



linuxswap



util-linux



http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/

/dev/sda6



ext4



e2fsprogs



http://e2fsprogs.sf.net

/dev/sdb3



ext4



e2fsprogs



http://e2fsprogs.sf.net

/dev/sdd3



ext3



e2fsprogs



http://e2fsprogs.sf.net

As long as the support tools for these file systems are not installed 
you will not be able to modify them.


You should find packages with these support tools in your distribution's 
package manager."


Both those packages are installed, of course.

Also discussed at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=141315

Bug#923663: partitionmanager: does not start, permission denied

[Aurélien Murith]

Package: partitionmanager
Version: 3.3.1-5
Severity: important

Running partitionmanager from KDE menu does not work, I get a "permission
denied" after having given my password. However, it works when running as "su
-c partitionmanager" from console.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=fr:en_GB (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages partitionmanager depends on:
ii  kio   5.54.1-1
ii  libc6 2.28-7
ii  libkf5configcore5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5configgui5  5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5configwidgets5  5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5coreaddons5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5crash5  5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5i18n5   5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5iconthemes5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5jobwidgets5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5kiocore55.54.1-1
ii  libkf5kiowidgets5 5.54.1-1
ii  libkf5widgetsaddons5  5.54.0-1
ii  libkf5xmlgui5 5.54.0-1
ii  libkpmcore7   3.3.0-4
ii  libqt5core5a  5.11.3+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5gui55.11.3+dfsg-5
ii  libqt5widgets55.11.3+dfsg-5
ii  libstdc++68.2.0-21

partitionmanager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages partitionmanager suggests:
ii  btrfs-progs4.20.1-2
ii  dosfstools 4.1-2
pn  hfsplus
pn  hfsutils   
pn  jfsutils   
ii  ntfs-3g1:2017.3.23AR.3-2
pn  reiser4progs   
pn  reiserfsprogs  
pn  xfsprogs   

-- no debconf information