Bug#600365: gksu: On kfreebsd gksu never runs the program requested to run.

[Michael Dorrington]

Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-3
Severity: important
User: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org
Usertags: kfreebsd
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-bsd at lists.debian.org

On kfreebsd, when the first program is requested to run in a GNOME
session using gksu the user is prompted for the administrative password.
Entering of an incorrect password causes the user to be prompted for the
password again, as gksu should behave. On entering a correct password
the program requested to run is not run, this not how gksu should
behave. If a program is later requested to run using gksu then a
"Granting Rights" item appears in Window List for several seconds and
then disappears but the requested program is not run. These programs can
be run using 'su -c'.

$ gksu --debug gnome-system-log
xauth: -edb34b3bcaa00f11c3796acb0718d433
-
display: -:0.0-
final xauth: -edb34b3bcaa00f11c3796acb0718d433
-
final display: -:0.0-
STARTUP_ID: gksu/gnome-system-log/7005-0-debian-kfreebsd-i386-3_TIME0
gksu_context_run: buf: -Password: -
password from keyring found
DEBUG (run:after-pass) buf: -Password: -
-EBUG (run:post-after-pass) buf: -
-EBUG (run:post-after-pass) buf: -gksu: waiting
-EBUG (gksu: waiting) buf: -gksu: waiting
<Output stops there and command doesn't return.>
<On i386 there is an extra line of output "Calling pass_not_needed
window..." and then (on i386) the program is run.>
^C
$ echo $?
130

Regards,
Mike.

P.S. Recreated .Xauthority now. :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: kfreebsd-i386 (i686)

Kernel: kFreeBSD 8.1-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.30.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc0.1                    2.11.2-6      Embedded GNU C Library:
Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                  1.8.10-6      The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1             2.8.0-2.1     generic font configuration
library
ii  libfreetype6               2.4.2-1       FreeType 2 font engine,
shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4                2.28.1-4      GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libgksu2-0                 2.0.13~pre1-1 library providing su and
sudo func
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.24.2-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          2.30.1-1      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.20.1-1+b1   The GTK+ graphical user
interface
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.28.1-1      Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.10-1        library for program launch
feedbac
ii  sudo                       1.7.4p4-2     Provide limited super user
privile

Versions of packages gksu recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring                 2.30.3-2   GNOME keyring services
(daemon and

gksu suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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