We should patch adept to recommend kdesudo.
** Changed in: adept (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
Status: New = Triaged
** Summary changed:
- Hardy: Running sudo adept_updater / adept_manager etc. under non-KDE sets
group/user of .ICEauthority to 'root'
+ Recommend that users
Ah, sorry about that, my mistake, I should've checked before posting my
comment.
I am not fully aware of all the reasons, but the correct practice is
indeed to use the graphical sudoes (gksudo or kdesudo) to launch
graphical programs. Hence, I don't know if this will be considered a
bug, or
OK, I know about the gksudo/kdesudo recommendation. And I wouldn't have
written this bug report if the consequences of using plain sudo instead
were adept_* erroring out or something like that. But being prevented
from graphical login altogether is more than just a minor annoyance. How
many novice
I just read the release notes for Adept 3.0 alpha 5 on the blog of the
application's developer:
[quote]
If you have sudo (Kubuntu-ers do, the rest can use kdesu or similar):
sudo adept
sudo adept installer
sudo adept updater
[/quote]
So much for [gk|kde]sudo... ;-)
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Hardy: Running sudo
expected to know that there even is a .ICEauthority
I agree with you, this is a valid point.
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Hardy: Running sudo adept_updater / adept_manager etc. under non-KDE sets
group/user of .ICEauthority to 'root'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203331
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No. It doesn't even work. I get:
/usr/bin/adept_manager: /usr/bin/adept_manager: cannot execute binary
file
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Hardy: Running sudo adept_updater / adept_manager etc. under non-KDE sets
group/user of .ICEauthority to 'root'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203331
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Does running it with 'sudo -i adept_manager' prevent the problem?
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Hardy: Running sudo adept_updater / adept_manager etc. under non-KDE sets
group/user of .ICEauthority to 'root'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203331
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This bug still occurs on 8.04 Release with updates as of 2008-05-11
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Hardy: Running sudo adept_updater / adept_manager etc. under non-KDE sets
group/user of .ICEauthority to 'root'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203331
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** Summary changed:
- Hardy: Running 'sudo adept_updater' under non-KDE sets group/user of
.ICEauthority to 'root'
+ Hardy: Running sudo adept_updater / adept_manager etc. under non-KDE sets
group/user of .ICEauthority to 'root'
** Description changed:
- When logged in as non-root user under
The bug does not show when using gksudo/kdesudo instead of plain sudo
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Hardy: Running sudo adept_updater / adept_manager etc. under non-KDE sets
group/user of .ICEauthority to 'root'
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203331
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