cant gksudo marlin

[Willeo Soeurs]

It seems that I cant get Marlin get into root access

gksudo marlin
[INFO 14:38:04.934906] Welcome to Marlin
[INFO 14:38:04.934991] Version: 0.1
[INFO 14:38:04.935033] Report any issues/bugs you might find to lp:marlin
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-shared-library-la
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[WARN 14:38:04.951953] Plugin not enabled: /usr/share/marlin/plugins/openterminal.plug
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-shared-library-la
text/plain
[WARN 14:38:04.952402] Plugin not enabled: /usr/share/marlin/plugins/contractor.plug
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-sharedlib
[WARN 14:38:04.974911] [Gtk] Error setting gtk-button-images in /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/settings.ini: Key file contains key 'gtk-button-images' which has value that cannot be interpreted.
[WARN 14:38:04.975046] [Gtk] Error setting gtk-auto-mnemonics in /usr/share/themes/elementary/gtk-3.0/settings.ini: Key file contains key 'gtk-auto-mnemonics' which has value that cannot be interpreted.
[FATAL 14:38:05.072141] [GLib] g_strsplit: assertion `string != NULL' failed
[FATAL 14:38:05.072202] marlin will not function properly.
willeosoeurs@WilleoSoeurs-elementarybook:~$

[xapantu (xapantu)]

Could you run it in a debugger?
gdb --args gksudo marlin
run

[make it crash]

bt #to print the backtrace

And please paste the full output (including the full backtrace) :)

[Adnane Belmadiaf (daker)]

daker@daker-p6630fr-m:~$ gdb --args gksudo marlin
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<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from /usr/bin/gksudo...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/gksudo marlin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb6d7bb70 (LWP 12640)]
[INFO 11:05:16.327027] Welcome to Marlin
[INFO 11:05:16.327089] Version: 0.1
[INFO 11:05:16.327117] Report any issues/bugs you might find to lp:marlin
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-shared-library-la
text/plain
[WARN 11:05:16.332460] Plugin not enabled: /usr/local/share/marlin/plugins/openterminal.plug
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-sharedlib
application/x-shared-library-la
text/plain
[WARN 11:05:16.332793] Plugin not enabled: /usr/local/share/marlin/plugins/contractor.plug
[FATAL 11:05:16.380180] [GLib] g_strsplit: assertion `string != NULL' failed
[FATAL 11:05:16.380210] marlin will not function properly.
[Thread 0xb6d7bb70 (LWP 12640) exited]

Program exited with code 0213.
(gdb) backtrace
No stack.
(gdb)

[xapantu (xapantu)]

 status confirmed
 importance high

[xapantu (xapantu)]

Vadim made a fix for that, could you test ?

[Adnane Belmadiaf (daker)]

Well i think it works but i am still getting some errors http://pastebin.com/pJtZ3CB4

[Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel)]

Latest Marlin from PPA worked fine for me on Oneiric with user root and $HOME=/root

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

status fixreleased

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

 status fixreleased

On 15 April 2013 15:33, am monkeyd <email address hidden> wrote:

> status fixreleased
>

[ammonkey (am-monkeyd)]

 status fixreleased