Are you sure it is trying to write? Normally gui apps need to be able to read ~/.Xauthority to work, and so if your home is on nfs and it is root squashing, that should break all gui apps, unless you have the XAUTHORITY variable pointing somewhere else?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to policykit-1 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/938792 Title: starting gparted with pkexec fails with /home via NFS Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “policykit-1” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: oneiric Starting gparted with "gparted-pkexec" fails with "No protocol specified (gpartedbin:4076): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1" This means gparted cannot be started from the unity dash. Starting with "gksudo gparted" works fine. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: gparted 0.8.1-1ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic 3.0.17 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic i686 ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4 Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Feb 22 17:19:30 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) SourcePackage: gparted UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (130 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/938792/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
