[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#805148: /usr/bin/pkexec: pkexec not working with non-gnome apps

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.105-13
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/pkexec

>From the manpages, pkexec is supposed to work with all types of GUI
applications.

But for some time, I've noticed that pkexec does not work with
non-gnome/gtk apps.

This one is with a python qt4 app.

rrs at learner:/tmp$ pkexec /usr/sbin/lmt-config-gui 
Using PyQt4
lmt-config-gui: cannot connect to X server 
2015-11-15 / 16:03:32 ♒♒♒    ☹  => 1  


And this one with a KDE 5 app


rrs at learner:/tmp$ pkexec katomic
QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display 
Aborted (core dumped)
2015-11-15 / 16:05:01 ♒♒♒    ☹  => 134  
rrs at learner:/tmp$ pkexec gedit
2015-11-15 / 16:05:21 ♒♒♒  ☺    


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.10.2-1
ii  libc6                  2.19-22
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.46.2-1
ii  libpam-systemd         227-2
ii  libpam0g               1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.105-13
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0  0.105-13
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-13

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

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