Bug#704137: /usr/bin/update-manager: update-manager only starts when run as root or with sudo

[Enrico Zini]

Package: update-manager-gnome
Version: 0.200.5-2.1
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/update-manager

Hello,

according on how I run update-manager, it actually starts, works well, and returns success 
after quitting, or it just exits with a nonzero return value:

$ gksu -k update-manager; echo $?
1
$ gksu update-manager; echo $?
1
$ sudo update-manager; echo $?
0
$ gksudo update-manager; echo $?
0
$ update-manager; echo $?
1

I suppose just update-manager by default runs gksu, because it asks for the password then 
quits with an error.

This means that the launcher icon for update-manager on this system is currently 
nonfunctional, and it needs to be run by hand with sudo from a terminal.

Ciao,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages update-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  gconf2               3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gksu                 2.0.2-6
ii  python               2.7.3-4
ii  python-dbus          1.1.1-1
ii  python-gconf         2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gobject       3.2.2-2
ii  python-gtk2          2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-support       1.0.15
ii  python-vte           1:0.28.2-5
ii  update-manager-core  0.200.5-2.1

update-manager-gnome recommends no packages.

Versions of packages update-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  software-properties-gtk  0.82.7.1debian1
ii  update-notifier          0.99.3debian11

-- no debconf information

Ciao,

Enrico

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GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico at enricozini.org>