Failed to execute child process "su-to-root" (No such file or directory)

[William Woelke]

When attempting to run "Simple Backup Restore" (sbackup), I receive the following error:

Failed to execute child process "su-to-root" (No such file or directory)

I am running Intrepid Ibex (x86) with the latest updates.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thanks for reporting the bug.
As a workaround: The program "su-to-root" is in the package "menu", so installing it via the package manager or with "sudo apt-get install menu" should fix the issue.

The problem is that the package sbackup does not depend on menu, although it should.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

This trivial patch should fix the issue

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Uploaded. Thank you. It may still make Intrepid. Ack from motu-release.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package sbackup - 0.10.5ubuntu2

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sbackup (0.10.5ubuntu2) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Replace depends on gksu and sudo with menu for su-to-root (LP: #260203)
    - Thanks to Marcel Stimberg for the fix

 -- Scott Kitterman <email address hidden> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:58:15 -0400