gksu fails to prompt for password
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gksu (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gksu
This looks like a possible duplicate of bug #602275, however a restart of the application doesn't result in gksu working the second time. Bug #275172 appears to be a duplicate of this report, but it was closed out as fixed and was for Ubuntu 8.10. It appears there has either been a regression, or this is a new bug..
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gksu 2.0.2-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 21 07:30:10 2010
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gksu
Behavior:
[code]
gksu gedit
[\code]
will simply hang.
[code]
ps -e | grep gksu
[\code]
with show an instance of gksu that has not used any processor time. If I kill the process, gedit will open without root privileges.
[code]
sudo -H -S -p GNOME_SUDO_PASS -u root gedit
[\code]
also fails.
[code]
sudo gedit &
[\code]
will work fine.