Package: gksu Version: 1.2.5-1 Severity: important I recently installed synaptic, whose menu entry uses the command-line `gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic` to start synaptic with root privileges.
Unfortunately, this does not work. After the password has been entered (correctly or incorrectly), gksu crashes with a segmentation fault. I tried the following variants: $ gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic Segmentation fault $ gksu -g -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic Segmentation fault $ gksu echo foo Segmentation fault $ gksu id Segmentation fault If I start synaptic from a terminal using `sudo`, it works fine, so the problem seems to be with gksu. gksudo seems to work, though: $ gksudo id uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root) -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages gksu depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgksu1.2-0 1.2.6-1 library providing su and sudo func ii libgksuui1.0-0 1.0.4-1 a graphical fronted to su library ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii sudo 1.6.8p7-1.1 Provide limited super user privile -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
