Bug#331124: gksu: Does not work with pam_wheel.so enabled

[Edward J. Shornock]

Package: gksu
Version: 1.3.5-2
Severity: important

With the following in /etc/pam.d/su

# Uncomment this if you want wheel members to be able to
# su without a password.
auth       sufficient pam_wheel.so trust


gksu hangs forever, without any visual prompts. Failure occurs with both
su mode and sudo mode.

Attached to this report is the output of `strace gksu vi` and pstree
while gksu isn't responding.

If there's any more information that's needed, please let me know so we
can try to squash this bug once and for all. :)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-rc2-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.10.1-6   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.10.3-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.10.1-6   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgksu1.2-0                  1.3.5-1    library providing su and sudo func
ii  libgksuui1.0-1                1.0.6-1    a graphical fronted to su library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.8.1-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0             0.4.5-1    GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.6.10-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                     1:2.12.2-3 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.8.2-2    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-5      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  sudo                          1.6.8p9-3  Provide limited super user privile

gksu recommends no packages.

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