gksu dialog not displaying with update-manager
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gksu (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: gksu
Using update-manager in netbook-remix Lucid Lynx
- gksu does not display dialog
(sporadic rather than every time).
consequently update-manager just sits there and spins its wheel with no error message.
This is annoying - for neophytes, very off-putting in terms of user experience of Linux desktop.
------ snip ------ part of ps wax below ------
4032 ? S 0:00 gksu /usr/bin/
11529 ? SN 0:00 /usr/bin/gksu --desktop /usr/share/
1768 ? S 0:37 update-notifier
11266 ? SNl 0:24 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gksu 2.0.2-2ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-28-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Feb 15 08:37:27 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gksu
And now, my prior workaround (clicking settings first) for it is no longer working.
The problem has also appeared for Root Terminal - no password prompt - just dies silently.
The hung processes appear in a pstree -p list and I have to kill them.
I've gone to using X-terminal and then using sudo - truly annoying and time wasting.
I have no clue whatsoever as to why this is failing.