its pretty queer:
when doing a sudo su, and then as root gedit <anyfile> , no second
"untitled document 1" is opened. but when using gksu/gksudu it is; in
the latter case ps shows that the command line that started gedit was
exactly this "gedit <anyfile>.
this additional "untitled document 1" always has the "changed" mark
(leading asterisk) but: nothing has happened to it, undo is inactive,
and it has no contents: when saved it has zero bytes.
tried to find out what gksu really did by "strace -f gksu gedit /etc/fstab" and
found it does:
execve("/usr/bin/sudo", ["/usr/bin/sudo", "-H", "-S", "-p", "GNOME_SUDO_PASS",
"-u", "root", "--", "gedit", "/etc/fstab"], [/* 38 vars */]) = 0
more readable:
/usr/bin/sudo -H -S -p GNOME_SUDO_PASS -u root -- gedit /etc/fstab
which means: set home to /root, read password from stdin, and prompt with
GNOME_SUDO_PASS (triggers gksu to output the pass phrase)
when I issue this very command in a xterm and enter my password after the
prompt gedit opens without this dummy untitled document, but with exactly the
same execve call it does? I have no clue ...
so summarizing:
- not caused by wrong setting in root's account
- not caused by wrong command from gksu
- caused by a different handling of the execve system call in contrast to the
shell?
this is on a newly set up maya mint system, but running gnome-classic
from precise repositories
btw: regarding the #23 desktop file:
grep Exec /usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop ->
Exec=gedit %U
Exec=gedit --new-window
Exec=gedit --new-window
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Title:
When run as root [gksudo gedit <whatever>] gedit tries to open a 2nd
'untitled document 1'
Status in Light-Weight Text Editor for Gnome:
New
Status in “gedit” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gedit
Ex.
gksudo gedit /etc/fstab will open fstab successfully but will also try to
open "Untitled Document 1" at the same time
If just running gksudo gedit than you'll get "Untitled Document 1" that never
does fully open (become writable
== Regression details ==
Discovered in version: 3.0.4-0ubuntu2
Last known good version: 2.30.4-2ubuntu1
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gedit 3.0.4-0ubuntu2 [modified: usr/share/applications/gedit.desktop]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-9.43lp760131v201106060906-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 11 19:11:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gedit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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