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Hi Mike,
Thank you for the updated NEWS text and for the tip about your Ubuntu
14.04 testing.
I investigated and discovered that I had installed an older version
into /usr/local. Since this older version was first in the path, my
tests were running the older version. Testing with only patch set v2
installed revealed the same results as you (it all worked).
Following are some changes I made to the NEWS announcement to try to
highlight that installation locations are different. Please feel free
to suggest further updates.
*** BEGIN ***
ATTENTION PACKAGERS:
The install location has changed for both the gparted script and the
gpartedbin executable.
This release provides an interim workaround to allow GParted to run
under Wayland by using xhost to grant and revoke root access to the
X11 display. This must be enabled while building the software with:
./configure --enable-xhost-root
Pkexec from polkit has been made the first choice graphical SU
program as all the desktops have settled on using polkit as the
privileged access mechanism. See "Installing polkit's Action File"
section in the README file for when an additional installation step
may be needed.
Also changed is that execution of the graphical SU program has been
moved from gparted.desktop to the gparted shell wrapper. Therefore
gparted can be run either by an unprivileged user or by root and as
such is installed in $prefix/bin rather than $prefix/sbin. This
additionally means distributions can drop their pkexec scripts used
to launch gparted.
*** END ***
Patch set v2 from comment #19 has been committed to the git repository
for inclusion in the next release of GParted.
The relevant git commits can be viewed at the following links:
Move root privilege escalation into gparted wrapper script (#776437)
https:/
Now install gparted wrapper script into $prefix/bin (#776437)
https:/
Add detection of pkexec root privilege escalation program (#776437)
https:/
Add required polkit action file (#776437)
https:/
Only install polkit action file when pkexec is used (#776437)
https:/
Check for pkexec >= 0.102 which supports execution of X11 apps (#776437)
https:/
Remove unnecessary autoconf check for pkexec --disable-
https:/
Only when configured, grant root access to the X11 display (#776437)
https:/
Add .dirstamp to .gitignore
https:/
Curtis