This bug was fixed in the package xdiagnose - 3.1
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xdiagnose (3.1) quantal; urgency=low
* control: Move intel-gpu-tools to recommends to fix FTBS
* Force Xorg.0.log encoding to bytes to work around UTF-8 issues
(LP: #1041104)
* Drop unused and undefined i18n calls
** Branch linked: lp:ubuntu/xdiagnose
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Title:
xdiagnose need root previlege to create /etc/default/grub.bak
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** Also affects: xdiagnose (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: Medium
Status: Triaged
** Also affects: xdiagnose (Ubuntu R-series)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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** Changed in: xdiagnose (Ubuntu R-series)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
** Changed in: xdiagnose (Ubuntu Quantal)
Importance: Medium = High
** Changed in: xdiagnose (Ubuntu R-series)
Status: New = Triaged
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** Branch linked: lp:xdiagnose
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Title:
xdiagnose need root previlege to create /etc/default/grub.bak
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I hoped to get a proper fix for Q but ran out of time. For Q will just
do the gksudo trick, and will do a proper fix later as time permits.
** Changed in: xdiagnose (Ubuntu Quantal)
Status: Triaged = Fix Committed
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prepending gksu to the menu command would be trivial (and in fact is a
relatively simple workaround) but I don't think it's the right way to
fix this. PolicyKit provides finer grained administrative permissions
and would allow xdiagnose to be started without permissions and only
request
Suggest renaming the bug as xdiagnose appears to require root privileges
for several things, and silently fails when launched from the default
Ubuntu menus, doing nothing. Seems like it may be a simple fix to have
it prompt for privileges on launch like a few other apps.
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** Also affects: xdiagnose (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Status: New = Triaged
** Changed in: xdiagnose (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Medium
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