> It would appear the issue is that a gdebi instance opened from the context menu on a desktop item is unable to do any action on any .deb file located anywhere. In other words it's doomed to fail upon simply opening.
I am experiencing this behavior on Xubuntu 24.04.2 also, with not just opening files from the desktop, but seemingly GUI "open-with"ing in general (double-click on deb file in Thunar/on desktop, Gnome Web open deb file after download) Opening a deb file with GDebi in such a way (optionally changing to a different deb file), then clicking "Install" exits immeidately. From `strace` it seems like `pkexec` is exiting with code 127 after gdebi-gtk calls `execv`. Changing the `gdebi.desktop` file to use `Terminal=true` seems to fix the issue (but then running gdebi-gtk opens a blank terminal while running). Alternately, making a simple script that forwards its arguments to `/usr/bin/gdebi-gtk` and placing it in PATH also seems to fix the issue. Looking through `.xsession-errors`, "Refusing to render service to dead parents." is printed when such a "bad" invocation exits. It seems like `pkexec` intentionally does not work when directly run with `execv` or similar? https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/foundations- bugs/2012-July/100103.html It seems like `gdebi-gtk` should either ship a wrapper executable that calls `pkexec`, or should `execv` to sh/`bash -c pkexec gdebi-gtk ...` or something instead of `execv`ing to `pkexec gdbi-gtk ...` directly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gdebi in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1807761 Title: Unable to install deb-file stored on Desktop (which is controlled by nautilus-desktop) with GDebi Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS or Ubuntu 18.10 2. Download some deb-file to the desktop - for with help of terminal: cd ~/Desktop apt-get download meld 3. Install GDebi package installer with sudo apt install gdebi 4. Select deb-file on desktop, make right click on it, select *Open With Other Application* select *GDebi Package Installer*, click *Select*, in opened window select *Install Package* Expected results: * GDebi asks user (sudo-able) password and installs the package Actual results: * GDebi do not ask user for password and do not install the package Notes: * first seen on AskUbuntu ( https://askubuntu.com/q/1099387/66509 ) * you can view my screencast to get first person view :) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: nautilus 1:3.26.4-0ubuntu7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-12.13-generic 4.18.17 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-12-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Dec 10 23:14:16 2018 GsettingsChanges: SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_nautilus: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdebi/+bug/1807761/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
