Bug#686844: (gksudo:1254): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed

[Martin-Éric Racine]

Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-6
Severity: important

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$ gksudo -u Debian-gdm paprefs

(gksudo:1254): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed
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The user launching this command is a member of group 'sudo' so it should be able to launch any command on the system (and it indeed can whenever launching CLI tools via e.g. gnome-terminal).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (1001, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-486
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (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                     2.13-35
ii  libcairo2                 1.12.2-2
ii  libfontconfig1            2.9.0-7
ii  libfreetype6              2.4.9-1
ii  libgconf2-4               3.2.5-1+build1
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               2.24.10-2
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.30.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-1
ii  sudo                      1.8.5p2-1

Versions of packages gksu recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring  3.4.1-5

gksu suggests no packages.

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