GParted

Bug #1652282
Comment #53

Comment 53 for bug 1652282

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In bugzilla.gnome.org/ #776437, Wise Melon (wise-melon-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2016-12-23:

#53

I have found that after switching from Xorg to Wayland on Ubuntu GNOME 16.10 with GNOME 3.22 that GParted does not run when I try to run it as root. That is when I click the icon and enter my password nothing happens. I have found that when running what is run when the icon is clicked that the output in Terminal is (gparted-pkexec):

    Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null.
    Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount → /dev/null.
    Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot.mount → /dev/null.
    Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null.
    Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-120.mount → /dev/null.
    Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null.
    No protocol specified

    (gpartedbin:16832): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
    Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount.
    Removed /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount.
    Removed /run/systemd/system/boot.mount.
    Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount.
    Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-120.mount.
    Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount.

So I am now unable to launch and use GParted as root which is really the only way I can run it in order to make changes.

I originally reported this issue here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1652282 But thought I should also do so upstream.