Applications that require gksu privileges (Synaptic, Update Manager, etc) do not launch
Bug #235637 reported by
Anonymous
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Bug Description
After attempting to launch any gksu application (Synaptic, Update Manager, GParted, etc), no password prompt appears. Instead, an item titled "Starting Administrative..." appears on the taskbar and ultimately disappears. Sometimes, launching the applications a second time works as expected. On other occasions, further attempts to launch the application only result in the same problem - no password prompt but a quiet failure of the application.
Launching any of these applications in terminal - ex: sudo synaptic - seems to work perfectly well.
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Hi, and thanks for your bug report.
This doesn't seem to be an issue with gksu. gksu is merely another form of sudo, intended for graphical applications.