Bug#913985: thunar: Thunar do not open as root
Control: tags -1 moreinfo unreproducible On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:47:03 -0500 Awtul wrote: > I have inserted 'false' instead of 'true' in > '/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.xfce.thunar.policy' > > ( false ) > > but thunar still won't open as root via 'pkexec'. As long as the value of this key is nonempty, the application is allowed access to DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY environment variables (even if it's set to false, 0 or the likes). When it's empty, `pkexec` will still offer a dialog and proceed as usual, but the calling program (Thunar, in our case) won't be able to start due to not having access to those two environment variables. The diagnostic message will look like this: > thunar: Failed to initialize Xfconf: Cannot autolaunch D-Bus without X11 > $DISPLAY "Won't open" doesn't say much. Do you have the root account set up? Does `pkexec` have the setuid set: check with `stat -c %A /usr/bin/pkexec`? Does it show the dialog at least? Can you enter the password? Can you run non-GUI or other apps with pkexec? Have you modified the policy file? You may try `apt reinstall thunar`. This will return your local modifications to defaults. The policy was added 7 years ago and hasn't been changed since. Tagging as unreproducible for now.
Bug#913985: thunar: Thunar do not open as root
Package: thunar Version: 1.8.2-1 Followup-For: Bug #913985 loginctl SESSION UID USER SEAT TTY 2 1000 user seat0 1 sessions listed. -- loginctl show-session 2 -p Type Type=x11 --
Bug#913985: thunar: Thunar do not open as root
Package: thunar Followup-For: Bug #913985 No, I am not running Gnome, I just run Openbox.
Bug#913985: thunar: Thunar do not open as root
Source: thunar Followup-For: Bug #913985 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I can see that you're on unstable. Do you use GNOME by any chance? In that case, GUI programs won't run as root on Wayland (#854627). - -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing-debug APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQEzBAEBCgAdFiEEAXEkn09uX7g8Tv8W3qerYfa4vJcFAlvwvzsACgkQ3qerYfa4 vJctWAf/cUx0C0GbzuRCRuGKCcuU/1TrUmRZjgNX2qUIfXQ6sNOMLxJgG3+6+eAk xoynOchKiylwgosAd4ATfoiRcXkFZTBP9TjAQGQsjy3fEHJ4+A0TPGErvi9z/H39 G/1gkMX01DABBoWh8UvntgumLbC0TraGnbWFxus9IEhNxh/Gx3oI6jr/Ul2z+GlJ so+3UnkuB/LU8klNTC1/SSx/qh2O9w9X6wc9mZAfXNwRpsaIgETQsMm6cRb7t8yQ YymIRqjzAlwwcoIRsSHoykj7vkSHkGAqmrIY3TOqg7aJh+x5MjsAwFyVKaKQvHxi oT+sqAlPQGtuT/e9yURf5L80Y4/lRA== =pyXS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Bug#913985: thunar: Thunar do not open as root
Package: thunar Version: 1.8.2-1 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, I have inserted 'false' instead of 'true' in '/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.xfce.thunar.policy' ( false ) but thunar still won't open as root via 'pkexec'. Cheers, Awtul -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es_ES:es (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages thunar depends on: ii desktop-file-utils 0.23-4 ii exo-utils 0.12.2-2 ii libatk1.0-0 2.30.0-1 ii libc6 2.27-8 ii libcairo2 1.16.0-1 ii libexo-2-0 0.12.2-2 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.38.0+dfsg-6 ii libglib2.0-02.58.1-2 ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.1-2 ii libgudev-1.0-0 232-2 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2 ii libnotify4 0.7.7-3 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.42.4-4 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b3 ii libthunarx-3-0 1.8.2-1 ii libxfce4ui-2-0 4.12.1-3 ii libxfce4util7 4.12.1-3 ii libxfconf-0-2 4.12.1-1 ii shared-mime-info1.10-1 ii thunar-data 1.8.2-1 Versions of packages thunar recommends: ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.12.10-1 ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.12.10-1 ii gvfs 1.38.1-1 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.16.0-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.42.4-4 ii libxfce4panel-2.0-4 4.12.2-1 ii policykit-1-gnome [polkit-1-auth-agent] 0.105-7 ii thunar-volman 0.9.0-1 ii tumbler 0.2.3-1 ii udisks2 2.8.1-2 ii xdg-user-dirs 0.17-1 Versions of packages thunar suggests: ii thunar-archive-plugin 0.4.0-2 ii thunar-media-tags-plugin 0.3.0-2 -- no debconf information
