Public bug reported: After attempting to launch any gksu application (Synaptic, Update Manager, GParted, etc), no password prompt appears. Instead, an item titled "Starting Administrative..." appears on the taskbar and ultimately disappears. Sometimes, launching the applications a second time works as expected. On other occasions, further attempts to launch the application only result in the same problem - no password prompt but a quiet failure of the application.
Launching any of these applications in terminal - ex: sudo synaptic - seems to work perfectly well. Further discussion on ubuntuforums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5051546#post5051546 ** Affects: gksu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: After attempting to launch any gksu application (Synaptic, Update Manager, GParted, etc), no password prompt appears. Instead, an item titled "Starting Administrative..." appears on the taskbar and - ultimately disappears. Sometimes, attempting to launch the applications - a second time works. Other times, it does not. + ultimately disappears. Sometimes, launching the applications a second + time works as expected. On other occasions, further attempts to launch + the application only result in the same problem - no password prompt but + a quiet failure of the application. Launching any of these applications in terminal - ex: sudo synaptic - seems to work perfectly well. Further discussion on ubuntuforums: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5051546#post5051546 -- Applications that require sudo privelages (Synaptic, Update Manager, etc) do not launch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/235637 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
