[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#563155: partitionmanager: does not start, and several zombie processes appear

[Jan Kusanagi]

Package: partitionmanager
Version: 1.0.0-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Upon starting partitionmanager, it asks for root password, but then the window doesn't appear, and you can see in System Activity how several zombie "partitionmanager" processes appear. There is one which is not zombie, if you kill it, all of them disappear.
It seems like the program starts OK if you execute partitionmanager-bin, and it offers the option of not using root privileges, and therefore hard drives do not appear listed, etc.

Maybe it's a bug in kdesu or something, not really partitionmanager fault...

I have my own debian-liveCD made with live-helper, and same thing happens, but there's no root password there, of course.
If I set one up, same problems occur.s



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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages partitionmanager depends on:
ii  kdebase-runtime   4:4.3.2-1              runtime components from the offici
ii  kdelibs5          4:4.3.2-2              core libraries for all KDE 4 appli
ii  libblkid1         2.16.2-0               block device id library
ii  libc6             2.10.2-2               GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1           1:4.4.2-3              GCC support library
ii  libparted1.8-12   1.8.8.git.2009.07.19-5 The GNU Parted disk partitioning s
ii  libqtcore4        4:4.5.3-4              Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4         4:4.5.3-4              Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6        4.4.2-3                The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libuuid1          2.16.2-0               Universally Unique ID library

partitionmanager recommends no packages.

Versions of packages partitionmanager suggests:
ii  dosfstools                    3.0.6-1    utilities for making and checking 
pn  hfsplus                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  hfsutils                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  jfsutils                      <none>     (no description available)
ii  ntfsprogs                     2.0.0-1+b1 tools for doing neat things in NTF
pn  reiser4progs                  <none>     (no description available)
pn  reiserfsprogs                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  udev                          149-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
pn  xfsprogs                      <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information