Package: gparted Version: 0.25.0-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
I recently tried to run gparted under an regular user account. A dialog correctly appeared requesting an administrator password. After this was entered, the dialogue box closed but gparted did not run. I then tried starting gparted from the command line to see if there were any messages that might help troubleshoot. Heres what I got: Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/home.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/root.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-rpc_pipefs.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-118.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null. No protocol specified (gpartedbin:19704): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/home.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/root.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/run-rpc_pipefs.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-118.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount. So I surmised that gparted was unable to open a display. This was reminiscent of a problem I had with libreoffice recently. In that case, the problem was related to the fact that I was running wayland instead of x11. To rule out that possibility I logged out and logged back in under x11. Gparted then ran fine. To a typical user - more of whom will be running wayland in the future - this would have been a mysterious problem that would have rendered gparted unusable. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'experimental'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages gparted depends on: ii libatkmm-1.6-1v5 2.24.2-2 ii libc6 2.24-9 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-5 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2 ii libglibmm-2.4-1v5 2.50.0-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.31-2 ii libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 1:2.24.5-1 ii libpangomm-1.4-1v5 2.40.1-3 ii libparted-fs-resize0 3.2-17 ii libparted2 3.2-17 ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.10.0-1 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-5 ii libuuid1 2.29.1-1 gparted recommends no packages. Versions of packages gparted suggests: pn dmraid <none> ii dmsetup 2:1.02.137-1 ii dosfstools 4.1-1 ii gpart 1:0.3-3 pn jfsutils <none> pn kpartx <none> ii mtools 4.0.18-2 ii ntfs-3g 1:2016.2.22AR.1-4 pn reiser4progs <none> pn reiserfsprogs <none> ii xfsprogs 4.9.0 ii yelp 3.22.0-1 -- no debconf information
