Bug#519773: gksu: causes errors opening gedit from root terminal and for programs requiring root privileges

[Cristian Greco]

Hi.

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 08:40:00PM -0700, James Fisher wrote:

> 3) Interferes with functionality of programs that require root password 
> to use them. Update-manager fails to launch after entering password. 
> Adjusting time for gnome panel applet or opening network preferences 
> window, gives this error: "The platform you are running is not supported 
> by this tool, if you know for sure that it works like one of the 
> platforms listed below, you can select that and continue. Note, however, 
> that this might damage the system configuration or downright cripple 
> your computer."

I think this bug isn't related to gksu but system-tools-backends, and is
similar to #386778. It could be fixed updating 01_debian_4.0.patch in that
package.

Thanks,
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Cristian Greco
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