[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Tags removed: artful -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session To manage

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** No longer affects: software-properties -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Also affects: software-properties Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Also affects: gparted Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

su-to-root apparently still works (for those who know about its existence) ** Changed in: gadmin-proftpd (Ubuntu) Importance: Critical => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

setting to critical for gadmin-proftpd as it renders the package useless in bionic. ** Changed in: gadmin-proftpd (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Critical ** Changed in: gadmin-proftpd (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

@kravemir It does not have to be a long running process. Just give it a short timeout like 10s. D-Bus/systemd will take care of starting new daemons when new requests come in. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

In unreleased version, HW access will be performed via D-Bus daemon. No need to run ddccontrol/gddccontrol with root privileges. See https://github.com/ddccontrol/ddccontrol/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md However, as daemon is long running process. It needs a bit of polishing, especially, get rid of

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

I have just uploaded Bleachbit 2.0-2 to the Debian archive, switching from su-to-root to policykit. This will fix the issue. ** Changed in: bleachbit (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: bleachbit (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Hugo Lefeuvre (hlef) -- You

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Tags added: bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session To manage

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

I have just installed i7z and i7z-gui packages on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS. i7z_GUI requires root privileges, so it seems to be affected by this bug on newer Ubuntu. ** Also affects: i7z (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

pkexec does not work under wayland either, so that change does not fix the issue. ** Changed in: gsmartcontrol (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

I can't comment whether it's really fixed, though, if it's not, well, I'm sorry and please reopen. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

It does in an earlier entry that was skipped in the fake changes somehow: --- gsmartcontrol-1.0.2/debian/changelog2017-08-21 07:42:52.0 + +++ gsmartcontrol-1.1.1/debian/changelog2017-10-01 18:32:15.0 + @@ -1,3 +1,23 @@ +gsmartcontrol (1.1.1-1) unstable;

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

WTF Launchpad? That changelog does not say it fixes this bug. ** Changed in: gsmartcontrol (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title:

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Description changed: List of pkexec'ed applications is located in bug 1713313. * Main upstream discussion & fixes example to deal with wayland: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776437 +

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

This bug was fixed in the package gsmartcontrol - 1.1.1-1 --- gsmartcontrol (1.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream release. -- Stephen Kitt Sun, 01 Oct 2017 20:32:15 +0200 ** Changed in: gsmartcontrol (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released --

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Description changed: List of pkexec'ed applications is located in bug 1713313. - - - - Posting here what gnome says about porting to wayland, and their tests: - - GNOME Applications under Wayland - GTK+ has a

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

At least `zenmap` and `wifi-radar` do not run on default fresh clean installation of Ubuntu 17.10. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Description changed: + The full list of pkexec'ed applications is located in bug 1713313. It is + long. + Posting here what gnome says about porting to wayland, and their tests: GNOME Applications under Wayland GTK+ has a Wayland backend. If it was enabled at compile-time, you can

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

@Norbert the full solution is not so easy; so be patient. Several thinks can be done: - run xhost script into a terminal each time a session is opened - insert the xhost script into .bashrc file - and/or test some more propositions: *

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

Ubuntu 17.10 with all updates, bug is not fixed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Tags removed: wayland-session ** Tags added: wayland -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

We are currently in the process of removing dependency on gksu from Ubuntu MATE. caja-gksu is not longer seeded in Ubuntu MATE and will soon be removed from the Debian and Ubuntu archives. caja-admin will be replacing caja-gksu. ** Changed in: caja-extensions (Ubuntu) Status: New => Won't

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

+c15 when clicking on "Open as administrator" on file object it shows error message: "Failed to run gedit 'file:///home/artful/x' as user root. Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file." and writes "Error copying '/home/artful/.Xauthority' to '/tmp/libgksu- 9mFF3E': No such file or

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

@Martin Wimpress (flexiondotorg) yes, because of caja-gksu. It does not work under Wayland. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

Is caja-extensions listed here because of caja-gksu? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

Here is my simple script for grepping su-to-root|gksu|pkexec inside application.desktop files in packages. How to use: 1. apt-cache rdepends menu | sort | uniq > menu_rdepends.txt 2. remove unnecessary rows from menu_rdepends.txt (such as "menu" and "Reverse Depends:") 3. execute my script with

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

BleachBit 1.17 (beta) switched from su-to-root (from the menu package) to pkexec, and I hope to soon release it as BleachBit 2.0 (final). This may resolve this issue too. This change was committed to the BleachBit git repository back in October (2016). -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

+ `spacefm-gtk3` to c10 ** Also affects: gadmin-samba (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

Grepping rdepends of gksu for gksu gives `caja-gksu`, `ltsp-live`, `gddccontrol`. ** Also affects: caja-extensions (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: edubuntu-netboot (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: ddccontrol (Ubuntu)

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Description changed: Posting here what gnome says about porting to wayland, and their tests: GNOME Applications under Wayland GTK+ has a Wayland backend. If it was enabled at compile-time, you can run a GTK+ application under Wayland simply by: GDK_BACKEND=wayland

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

Grepping rdepends of gksu for su-to-root gives `guymager`, `hannah- foo2zjs`, `zenmap` ** Also affects: hannah-foo2zjs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

@dino99 Thanks! So I dig deeper. I tested some rdepends with the following actions 1. apt-cache rdepends menu | sort | uniq > menu_rdepends.txt 2. removed unnecessary rows from menu_rdepends.txt (such as "menu" and "Reverse Depends:") 3. executed small script (apt-file list, apt-get download,

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Also affects: keytouch-editor (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: kontrolpack (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Also affects: debian-installer-launcher (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: gadmin-bind (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

** Description changed: + Posting here what gnome says about porting to wayland, and their tests: + + GNOME Applications under Wayland + GTK+ has a Wayland backend. If it was enabled at compile-time, you can run a GTK+ application under Wayland simply by: + + GDK_BACKEND=wayland

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

@Julian indeed, my bad, its a typo; need to read policykit not packagekit of course (#4) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

Generally speaking, all (Wayland-capable) apps that currently run their UI as root need to be restructured to use PolicyKit for the privileged operations, and have the UI run as a normal user. Apps that do not run on Wayland and use the legacy Xwayland compat, but you need to run xhost

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

@dino99 packagekit has nothing to do with this. pk means policykit in this context. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

@Norbert Glad to see you listing the affected apps. It should be good to merge the different reports already made into a single, like that one. But i wonder if Debian packaging & Ubuntu packaging have followed the same transition from the past. Histotic ubuntu transition has been gksu/gksudo ->

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

And what should users do if Wayland may become new GNOME standard? Is it possible to replace su-to-root with pkexec? 20 applications are affected. They are popular. On Wayland they are useless. Great to hear. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1713311] Re: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on Wayland session

Wayland does not support root applications by design. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713311 Title: Unable to launch applications which use su-to-root from menu package as root on