Package: gksu Version: 2.0.0-8 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
1) When launching gedit from a root terminal, always get this error in a popup window: "Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.)" 2) Same as above occurs when launching nautilus from a root window and the nautilus window that opens in fact does not have root privileges. 3) Interferes with functionality of programs that require root password to use them. Update-manager fails to launch after entering password. Adjusting time for gnome panel applet or opening network preferences window, gives this error: "The platform you are running is not supported by this tool, if you know for sure that it works like one of the platforms listed below, you can select that and continue. Note, however, that this might damage the system configuration or downright cripple your computer." I'm not certain these problems all relate to gksu, but it seems like the culprit, since they are all errors that appear when launching a gnome program with root priviledges and, in the case of 3), occur immediately after entering root password in popup window. They also all appear after gksu upgrades from 2.0.0-6 to 2.0.0-8. Some people report solving problem 1) by upgrading to 2.0.2, but this did not solve the problem for me. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gksu depends on: ii gnome-keyring 2.22.3-2 GNOME keyring services (daemon and ii libatk1.0-0 1.22.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libgconf2-4 2.24.0-7 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgksu2-0 2.0.7-1 library providing su and sudo func ii libglib2.0-0 2.18.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 2.22.3-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.12-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.22.4-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libstartup-notification0 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac ii sudo 1.6.9p17-2 Provide limited super user privile gksu recommends no packages. gksu suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
