Indeed, there is! Thank you for pointing this out. My home directory is mounted via nfs. For security reasons, nfs by default does not allow root access to the exported shares -- when root tries to write to a nfs share, the user and group is changed to nobody:nogroup. (This is called "root squashing") Apparently pkexec tries to write to my home directory as the root user, and this fails, since nfs changes the user to nobody, who cannot write to my home.
Solution: When I turn off this security feature and allow root access via nfs, everything works fine. Still I wonder why pkexec tries to write to my home as root? Do you know what it's trying to do? Anyway. this may well by an issue of policykit, not gparted at all. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/938792 Title: starting gparted with pkexec fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/938792/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
