Package: gksu Version: 2.0.2-9 Severity: important After upgrading to Jessie sometimes Gnome got unusable as /run/user/1000/steink/dconf was suddenly owned by root and not writeable by steink (Gnome hangs, /var/log/messages grew to some GB etc.).
According to <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1197395> this is caused by XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not being properly reset when switching to root with su/sudo/… Su and sudo are fixed, but with gksu XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 survives (which causes the problem). I think this should not happen without -k. A quick fix would be to at least change /usr/share/applications/gksu.desktop: Exec=gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator to Exec=gksu -l /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator I am not sure whether root should be allowed to use XDG_RUNTIME in this way and change file ownership, so maybe the bug (partly) belongs to another package. Thanks, Klaus -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gksu depends on: ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3 ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-18 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3 ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1 ii libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-8 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 ii libgnome-keyring0 3.12.0-1+b1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-3 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4 ii sudo 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u2 Versions of packages gksu recommends: ii gnome-keyring 3.14.0-1+b1 gksu suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
