michaellarabel:  Yup.  It was a headless box.  I'll take a look at the
gksudo case later, unless you want to tackle it yourself.

On 10 April 2012 00:22, michaellarabel <email address hidden> wrote:
> aidanjt: Running without any X Server I imagine? There was a known bug
> with it due to gksudo vs. sudo differences. IIRC, your patch now allows
> the installer to work when not using X, but then if gksudo is used it
> will break. It was being pesky, I think I changed it around in the
> released Phoronix Test Suite 3.8 from March.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969846
>
> Title:
>  Test suite integration with system package manager is broken
>
> Status in “phoronix-test-suite” package in Ubuntu:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  Automatic installation of system dependancies doesn't work.  I'm
>  prompted for a password and the installation silently fails.  As seen
>  here:
>
>  aidan@ubibox ~ $ phoronix-test-suite benchmark pts/dbench
>
>  The following dependencies are needed and will be installed:
>
>  - autoconf
>  - libpopt-dev
>
>  This process may take several minutes.
>  [sudo] password for aidan:
>  sudo: aptitude -y install autoconf libpopt-dev: command not found
>
>  There are dependencies still missing from the system:
>  - Autoconf
>  - Popt
>
>  1: Ignore missing dependencies and proceed with installation.
>  2: Skip installing the tests with missing dependencies.
>  3: Re-attempt to install the missing dependencies.
>  4: Quit the current Phoronix Test Suite process.
>
>  Missing dependencies action: 4
>
>  -------------
>
>  The problem is in /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/external-
>  test-dependencies/scripts/install-ubuntu-packages.sh, superfluous
>  syntax.. so I just went ahead and stripped it out, removed a pointless
>  else in the first if, too:
>
>  --- install-ubuntu-packages.sh.old      2012-03-31 08:40:43.299549961 +0100
>  +++ install-ubuntu-packages.sh  2012-03-31 08:45:09.699564796 +0100
>  @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
>   #!/bin/sh
>  +
>   if [ `whoami` != "root" ]; then
>          if [ -x /usr/bin/gksudo ] && [ ! -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then
>                  ROOT="/usr/bin/gksudo"
>  @@ -7,15 +8,13 @@
>          elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then
>                  ROOT="/usr/bin/sudo"
>          fi
>  -else
>  -       su -c "apt-get -y install $*"
>  -       exit
>   fi
>
>   if [ -x /usr/bin/aptitude ]; then
>          # aptitude is nice since it doesn't fail if a non-existant package is hit
>          # See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=503215
>  -       $ROOT -- "aptitude -y install $*"
>  +       $ROOT aptitude -y install $*
>   else
>  -       $ROOT -- "apt-get -y --ignore-missing install $*"
>  +       $ROOT apt-get -y --ignore-missing install $*
>   fi
>  +
>
>  ---------
>
>  Tested, works fine.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
>  Package: phoronix-test-suite 3.6.1-1
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic 3.2.12
>  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic x86_64
>  ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
>  Architecture: amd64
>  Date: Sat Mar 31 08:03:25 2012
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120327)
>  PackageArchitecture: all
>  ProcEnviron:
>   TERM=xterm
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>   LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
>   LANGUAGE=en_IE:en
>  SourcePackage: phoronix-test-suite
>  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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