This issue is still present on Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18 and a
fresh install.
** Tags added: wily
** Also affects: xdiagnose (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: ubuntu-gnome
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
I am in need of doing some diagnostics work with "xdiagnose", however
when searching for it in the Activities Overview, and then clicking on
it, absolutely nothing happens, when in the past it would ask me for my
- password so that it could gain superuser privileges.
+ password so that I could run it as root.
I looked further into this and tried running it in Terminal:
xdiagnose
And this was the output from the command:
Error: Must run as superuser
There was no output from the command:
grep -r 'xdiagnose' ~/.local/share/applications
And the output of this command "grep -r 'xdiagnose'
/usr/share/applications" was:
/usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:Name=xdiagnose
/usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:Exec=pkexec xdiagnose
/usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:Icon=/usr/share/xdiagnose/icons/microscope.svg
/usr/share/applications/xdiagnose.desktop:X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xdiagnose
The contents of the file is this:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=xdiagnose
GenericName=Diagnose Graphics Issues
Comment=X.org Diagnostic and Repair Utility
Exec=pkexec xdiagnose
Icon=/usr/share/xdiagnose/icons/microscope.svg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=System;Settings;
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=xdiagnose
I have reinstalled it with "sudo apt-get install --reinstall xdiagnose",
however this seems to have made no difference at all to anything.
I have also attempted to launch another application via the Activities
Overview that uses pkexec to start, and it works fine as normal.
This has been adapted from this AskUbuntu question (which I asked):
http://askubuntu.com/q/659762/364819
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**OS Information:**
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
Codename: vivid
Flavour: Gnome
Gnome Version: 3.16
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Title:
Unable to launch xdiagnose through the Activities Overview in the
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