Before installing this update, any command called with gksu/gksudo would just
hang without error message if /etc/hosts did not include my local machine name.
I've originally worked around the original bug (#55172) by modifying the first
line of /etc/hosts so that i reads "127.0.0.1 localhost johndoe-desktop", where
johndoe-desktop is my machine name.
Restoring the line to its original state brought the bug back, as expected.
After installing the proposed update, gksudo/gksu no longer hangs if my
machine name is not included in /etc/hosts, so i would say that it works
as intended.
Instead of using "gksu id", i used "gksu gedit" for testing.
P.S. There is something strange that i notice if i completely comment out my
127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts. Running gksu gedit still works and the gdit
window appears as it should.
But upon closing of gksu gedit, the following message appears in my terminal:
Usage:program_name [address][:port]Usage:program_name [address][:port]
Sometimes, this message is repeated several times.
This does not occur if the line is not commented out.
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race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237325
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