Package: liborbit2 Version: 1:2.14.16-0.1 Followup-For: Bug #514110 I'm not sure what upstream is talking about - this package is broken (well, has some issues is more accurate). Note that my system was fine until the upgrade after Lenny went stable (Feb 16th upgrade borked things). I got about 300 packages that day. Restoring liborbit2 back to the version in lenny (1:2.14.13-0.1) (and not changing anything else) fixed the system, so the problem is definitely in liborbit2. (Took me a while to track this one down).
Symptoms: gnome-terminal: Start a terminal as root from a menu/launcher which uses gksu and all subsequent terminals also start as root, no matter how they're started. Conversely start a terminal as a normal user and all terminals start as normal terminals, even if they're started using gksu. try to start a root-nautilus session and it can't be done, no matter how I try (although I didn't try a gksu menu/launcher for that). What I did try was: 1) I have nautilus-gksu installed. Right-click, select "open as administrator". This still works correctly for files (eg a root editor will open for a text file) but is groken for trying to open a folder. The nautilus window that starts is not root - it's the nirmal user. Authentication log shows "session opened for root" **immediately** followed by "session closed for root". 2) The exact same thing happens if I try gksu nautilus from a normal user terminal, from a root user terminal, or just issue a nautilus command from a root terminal without using gksu. Switching gksu to gksudo mode fixes things so they work correctly (as far as it goes). And, as I mentioned in the beginning downgrading liborbit2 to the version in lenny fixes things so that gksu works as expected. I even tried (before downgrading liborbit2) installing gksu-polkit to no avail. I suppose it's possible that the problem is really in gksu and that it needs to be modified to work with the new liborbit2 - but something needs to be fixed somewhere. If you need any more information or would like me to try anything else please let me know. At the moment I've downgraded liborbit2 and placed it on hold. I'll probably remove gksu-polkit for now as well since it doesn't appear to be affecting anything. Thanks for listening :) -jcm -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28.6+00.fbcondecor (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) 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 liborbit2 depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libidl0 0.8.10-0.1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file liborbit2 recommends no packages. liborbit2 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
