[Bug 696937] Re: running gparted as non-root user displays no graphical error message

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[Expired for gparted (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  running gparted as non-root user displays no graphical error message

Status in “gparted” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gparted

  When gparted is run as a non-root user, it quits immediately without
  displaying any graphical user interface elements. Running it from the
  command line reveals this error message as the sole output:

  Inhibit all polling failed: Only uid 0 is authorized to inhibit the
  daemon

  Unless gparted is modified to use PolicyKit (or to automatically
  invoke gksu, su-to-root, or the like), it seems to me that it ought to
  display an error graphically when it is run with inadequate
  credentials.

  Furthermore, even when run from the command-line, gparted never
  explicitly states that it needs to be run as root. The error it does
  display suggests that it does...but only to a user who knows that
  inhibiting polling is essential to gparted's usability, and that the
  superuser has uid 0.

  There is a significant mitigating factor: gparted is typically run
  from a menu, which actually executes the command "gksu gparted". But
  results of a web search suggest that inexperienced users of gparted
  frequently fail to realize that it needs to be run as root, and
  frequently don't figure it out themselves (even when they run it from
  a terminal see the error message).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: gparted 0.6.2-1ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jan  3 14:07:04 2011
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100406)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gparted

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