Public bug reported:
gnome-nettool reports my "Link speed" as "not available", unless I run
gnome-nettool as root, yet gnome-nettool has no way I can run it as root
via a desktop file. The gnome-nettool package should include a gnome-
nettool-as-root.desktop
walt@aardvark:~(0)$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
walt@aardvark:~(0)$ apt-cache policy gnome-nettool
gnome-nettool:
Installed: 3.0.0-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 3.0.0-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 3.0.0-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-nettool 3.0.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 28 13:39:49 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-nettool
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-11-22 (6 days ago)
** Affects: gnome-nettool (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity
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