starting synaptic with pkexec fails with /home via NFS

Bug #938794 reported by Rüdiger Kupper
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Bug Description

oneiric

Starting synaptic with "synaptic-pkexec" fails with
"No protocol specified
(synaptic:4539): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1"

This means synaptic cannot be started from the unity dash.

Starting with "gksudo synaptic" works fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 22 17:21:57 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (130 days ago)

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Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper) wrote :
summary: - starting synaptic with pkexec fails
+ starting synaptic with pkexec fails with /home via NFS
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