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and subject line Bug#892768: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #794972,
regarding gksu: Environment variable XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not reset, renders
gnome unusable.
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Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-9
Severity: important
After upgrading to Jessie sometimes Gnome got unusable as
/run/user/1000/steink/dconf was suddenly owned by root and not writeable by
steink (Gnome hangs, /var/log/messages grew to some GB etc.).
According to
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1197395> this is
caused by XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not being properly reset when switching to root with
su/sudo/…
Su and sudo are fixed, but with gksu XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 survives
(which causes the problem).
I think this should not happen without -k.
A quick fix would be to at least change /usr/share/applications/gksu.desktop:
Exec=gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
to
Exec=gksu -l /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator
I am not sure whether root should be allowed to use XDG_RUNTIME in this way and
change file ownership, so maybe the bug (partly) belongs to another package.
Thanks,
Klaus
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii gconf-service 3.2.6-3
ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-18
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3
ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3
ii libgconf-2-4 3.2.6-3
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1
ii libgksu2-0 2.0.13~pre1-8
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1
ii libgnome-keyring0 3.12.0-1+b1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4
ii sudo 1.8.10p3-1+deb8u2
Versions of packages gksu recommends:
ii gnome-keyring 3.14.0-1+b1
gksu suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Version: 2.0.2-9+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package gksu has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/892768
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.
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