[Bug 829099] Re: synaptic-pkexec fails: cannot open display 0

[Fritz Heinrichmeyer]

when using kdm on a freshly updated oneiric amd64 box,

pkexec synaptic fails in a unity session  (cannot open display: :0).
That means starting it from a launcher/dash icon fails.

Under a kde session synaptic is started with  the  kde sudo program, so
synaptic can be started from the gui with kde destop, but not with unity
desktop.

I am far away from the box with both desktops installed now, so i cannot
check the contents/existence of the suspected file

/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic.policy

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Title:
  synaptic-pkexec fails: cannot open display 0

Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/$ synaptic-pkexec 
  No protocol specified

  (synaptic:10136): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

  Using synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu6.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu6 [modified: usr/share/applications/synaptic-kde.desktop]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic-pae 3.0.1
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Aug 18 19:40:28 2011
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928.3)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: synaptic
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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