Package: gksu Version: 1.3.6-1 Severity: important
I cannot pinpoint exactly what packages I installed/upgraded before this started to happen, but yesterday I found I was no longer able to run Synaptic from the gnome menu. .xsession-errors showed X authentication errors. Upon further checking, I found that the problem seems to lie with gksu, as running the command via su, sudo (with DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY in env_keep) and 'gksu -S' works fine. The cause seems to be that a bad .Xauthority file is created - running gksu "xauth list" resulted in only one line $hostname/unix:2 .... while running "xauth list" as myself gave me 3 lines for display 2: $hostname/unix:2 ... $hostname.$domainname:2 ... 0.0.0.0:2 ... and DISPLAY is set to the second form (by the X server I presume). Running "gksu 'xauth add $hostname.$domainname:2 ....; emacs'" works. Setting DISPLAY to $hostname/unix:2 before running gksu also works. Neither seems particularly acceptable though - I would expect gksu to set up the environment correctly. (In case it matters, the X server in question is Xrealvnc) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages gksu depends on: ii gconf2 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgconf2-4 2.12.1-8 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgksu1.2-0 1.3.7-1 library providing su and sudo func ii libgksuui1.0-1 1.0.7-1 a graphical fronted to su library ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.5-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.6-2 GNOME keyring services library ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.2-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii sudo 1.6.8p12-1 Provide limited super user privile gksu recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
