Bug#536490: gnome-system-tools: Asks for root password instead of user password via sudo (root disabled)

[Julien BEHEM]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.22.1-5
Severity: important

When launching any gnome-system-tools utility and clicking on the unlock button, it asks for root password but root account is disabled and system is using sudo (working well in console, sudo is well configured, and sudo-mode is set to true for gksu in gconf editor).
I saw an old bugreport of 2008 (number 412982) describing maybe the same problem and solved by upgrading to 2.16 or 2.17 version, but i'm using 2.22...

I also have the same problem with the gnome NetworkManager applet (v 0.7.1).
By the way, other admin tools like update-manager or gnome-app-install for example use sudo correctly.

Thanks for help


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (988, 'testing'), (986, 'testing'), (984, 'stable'), (982, 'stable'), (98, 'unstable'), (96, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  gconf2                 2.26.2-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.26.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.9-12            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.8.6-2+b1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.14-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.80-4            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.9-4.1         FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.26.2-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.20.1-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.16.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.26.3-1          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liboobs-1-4            2.22.0-2          GObject based interface to system-
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.24.0-3+b1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpolkit-dbus2        0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit vi
ii  libpolkit2             0.9-4             library for accessing PolicyKit
ii  perl                   5.10.0-23         Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  policykit-gnome        0.9.2-2           GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit
ii  system-tools-backends  2.6.0-6.1         System Tools to manage computer co
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gnome-control-center        1:2.24.0.1-5 utilities to configure the GNOME d

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools suggests:
ii  ntp                     1:4.2.4p6+dfsg-1 Network Time Protocol daemon and u
ii  samba-common            2:3.3.4-1        common files used by both the Samb
pn  wvdial                  <none>           (no description available)

-- no debconf information