Bug#611343: gksu: Click on synaptic (from update lenny to squeeze) nothing happens!

[Patrick Cornelißen]

Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-6
Followup-For: Bug #611343

Dear Maintainer,

I have the same problem. It started some time ago (maybe 1-2 months). I was
hoping that the problem will be reported by someone else, but it looks like the
focus is elsewhere atm. ;-)

Currently it's not possible to start any programm via gksu. The programm simply
does not terminate nor do anything.

For example when I start gedit via gksu I get these processes:

1000      8843  0.0  0.0 164796  6916 pts/0    S+   08:33   0:00 gksu gedit
root      8848  0.0  0.0 159796  3584 pts/2    Ss+  08:33   0:00 /bin/su root
-c /usr/lib/libgksu/gksu-run-helper "gedit"

They stay there and don't start anything or die (at least not in the 15 minutes
I was looking at them)

Please fix this :-)

As a workaround:
Start your software with sudo. This still works for me.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.13-33
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-6
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf2-4               3.2.5-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.26.1-1
ii  libgksu2-0                2.0.13~pre1-6
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.32.3-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0         3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.10-1
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  sudo                      1.8.3p2-1.1

Versions of packages gksu recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring  3.4.1-4

gksu suggests no packages.

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