@Sebastien Bacher, I'm sure that if I were in your shoes, I would be saying many of the same things. It is clearly not showing up as a major issue on https://errors.ubuntu.com. Then again, I'm not sure that opening a program as administrator is all that common for most users, so one would expect occurrence to be low. For those running applications as administrator relatively often, it may not be low.
As @Troull.. points out, the issue has been around for quite a while, the difference is "back then" it didn't occur as often. By back then I'm referring to Ubuntu 11.04 and 12.04. Now with Ubuntu MATE 14.04 it happens to me almost all the time. Maybe it can be given somewhat greater importance based on that (since you asked about config-specific) and the additional information I provide below? What I'm throwing out there is the question: Is this caused by the presence of the .gksu.lock file? And the other question is: Why would that lock file be retained if the (offending) administratively-run program has been closed? Shouldn't that lock file be removed at that moment? Additional info: the problem seems to begin after there has been a .gksu.lock file created from a previous "Open as Administrator". If there is no .gksu.lock file then at the first "Open as Administrator" the issue does not occur. But when attempting a second "Open as Administrator" and the .gksu.lock is still present from the first, then the delay occurs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/349988 Title: Hangs for 10 seconds when starting an admin app. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/349988/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
