Bug#362125: gksu fails because it looks for xauth in wrong location
Andree Leidenfrost
aleidenf at bigpond.net.au
Wed Apr 12 11:50:35 UTC 2006
Package: gksu
Version: 1.3.7-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Hi Gustavo,
As of today, I can't use the synaptic menu entry in Gnome anymore.
Running the command in a ternimal gives:
andree at aurich3:~$ gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic
sh: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: No such file or directory
sh: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: No such file or directory
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
(synaptic:7345): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
xauth is actually in /usr/bin/xauth now:
andree at aurich3:~$ dpkg -S xauth
xutils: /usr/bin/xauth_switch_to_sun-des-1
libpam-modules: /lib/security/pam_xauth.so
xbase-clients: /usr/share/man/man1/xauth.1x.gz
xbase-clients: /usr/bin/xauth
Creating the following link is a workaround for the problem:
ln -s /usr/bin/xauth /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
The location of xauth may have changed in xbase-clients 1:7.0.0-1.
Maybe a fix would be to add /usr/bin/xauth to the places that gksu looks
for xauth or to just rely on the path to contain xauth in the first
place.
Please let me know in case more information is required.
Please note that #349652 may be related to this.
Best regards,
Andree
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii gconf2 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libatk1.0-0 1.11.4-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.6-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.0.4-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-5.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgksu1.2-0 1.3.7-1 library providing su and sudo func
ii libgksuui1.0-1 1.0.7-1 a graphical fronted to su library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.9-1 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.16-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.0-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.12.0-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5.1 PNG library - runtime
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-5 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.5.2-2 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.0-3 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-3 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0.2-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii sudo 1.6.8p12-3 Provide limited super user privile
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime
gksu recommends no packages.
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