[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2014-05-24 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Assignee: Papercuts Ninjas (papercuts-ninja) = (unassigned) ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: Confirmed = Triaged ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Importance: Undecided = Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2014-05-24 Thread Adolfo Jayme
** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Low = Medium ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Importance: Low = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641 Title: unity does not

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2013-07-02 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
** Also affects: hundredpapercuts Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = Triaged ** Changed in: unity Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts Status: New = Confirmed ** Changed in: hundredpapercuts

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2013-03-08 Thread György Balló
** Also affects: unity Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641 Title: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2013-03-08 Thread György Balló
It happens on Arch Linux also under Unity with all .desktop files that use pkexec in their Exec= line. It's probably related to this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675789 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #675789 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675789 -- You

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2012-12-04 Thread Savio
Thank you for Workaround Rocko -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641 Title: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome- system-log unusable from the Dash

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2012-12-03 Thread Nate R
Thanks for the workaround, Rocko! Worked like a charm. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641 Title: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2012-12-02 Thread Abhijeet sawant
I just update to ubuntu 12.10 from 12.04 and same problem also effects me. Can anyone give workaround. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641 Title: unity does not display

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2012-12-02 Thread Rocko
For a workaround, sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/gnome-system- log.desktop, remove the word pkexec from the EXEC= line, and save the changes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2012-11-07 Thread Bill Turner, wb4alm
Problem still exists in Ubuntu 12.10 when attemping to start gnome- system-log. Gnome-system-log will run from a terminal however. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641 Title: unity

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-10-31 Thread Franck
Hi, I'm running Quantal up-to-date (as of 2012-10-31) and: I can confirm that I cannot launch gnome-system-log from the Dash. I can confirm the Refusing to render service to dead parents. in .xsessions-errors ** Summary changed: - unity does not display authentication window for pkexec +

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unasable from the Dash

2012-10-31 Thread Franck
Also notice the debian bug report refered by Tiago in comment #10 has itself a link to: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686059 (about double forking and breaking pkexec) ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #686059 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686059 -- You

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash

2012-10-31 Thread Leonard Peris
** Summary changed: - unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unasable from the Dash + unity does not display authentication window for pkexec, making gnome-system-log unusable from the Dash -- You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-10-24 Thread Tiago Neiva
Sebastian: you say was? or is? I'm still having this bug in 12.10 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641 Title: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec To manage

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-10-24 Thread Tiago Neiva
I found this in debian bug reports: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690337 it may be of interest ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #690337 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690337 ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid = Confirmed -- You

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-10-24 Thread Tiago Neiva
When I call gnome-system-log from the dash I get the following error in .xsession-errors: Refusing to render service to dead parents. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641 Title:

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-04-25 Thread Sebastien Bacher
the fact that dialog was not displayed has nothing to do with unity, it's pkexec which requires a config file allowing to keep the display for the command being run, the bug was in gnome-system-log the fact that unity doesn't display command line errors in a graphical way when an application

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-04-25 Thread Rocko
Thanks, that's good to know. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957641 Title: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-04-24 Thread Sebastien Bacher
thank you for your bug report, that was an error in that .desktop and not a bug in unity, the issue got resolved with an update, closing the bug ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New = Invalid -- You received this bug

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-04-24 Thread Rocko
Do you mean that unity now displays an authentication window if you specify pkexec in a desktop file? Or is not displaying the authentication window and silently failing an intentional feature of unity? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-03-17 Thread Omer Akram
using unity from staging ppa + everything upto date I am unable to reproduce the issue that you described. Can you record a video to show the problem that you are facing. ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New = Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-03-17 Thread Rocko
record-my-desktop isn't playing nicely at the moment - it just freezes when I hit alt-f2. What happens if you try: alt-f2 then 'pkexec gnome- system-log'? For me, the alt-f2 window closes but nothing runs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-03-17 Thread Rocko
I've confirmed the problem also exists in a virtual machine. I updated the VM to the staging PPA (https://launchpad.net/~unity- team/+archive/staging?field.series_filter=precise; unity is now at version 5.6.0+bzr2123ubuntu0+670) and it still exhibits the problem. ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)

[Bug 957641] Re: unity does not display authentication window for pkexec

2012-03-16 Thread Rocko
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