[Bug 1652282] Re: GParted does not work in GNOME on Wayland

[Dave Stroud]

when has synaptic package manager ever been a security risk?Waylan
allows software updater to work so should it allow synaptic to work in
root.You cant even get root terminal to work.I do not believe that I
should to have do work arounds to make it work. It just should work like
it always has.

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Title:
  GParted does not work in GNOME on Wayland

Status in gdm:
  Unknown
Status in GParted:
  Fix Released
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  Triaged
Status in wayland:
  New
Status in gparted package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have found that after switching from Xorg to Wayland on Ubuntu GNOME
  16.10 with GNOME 3.22 that GParted does not run when I try to run it
  as root. That is when I click the icon and enter my password nothing
  happens. I have found that when running what is run when the icon is
  clicked that the output in Terminal is (gparted-pkexec):

      Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null.
      Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount → /dev/null.
      Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot.mount → /dev/null.
      Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null.
      Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-120.mount → /dev/null.
      Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null.
      No protocol specified

      (gpartedbin:16832): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
      Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount.
      Removed /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount.
      Removed /run/systemd/system/boot.mount.
      Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount.
      Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-120.mount.
      Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount.

  So I am now unable to launch and use GParted as root which is really
  the only way I can run it in order to make changes.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
  Package: gparted 0.25.0-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-32.34-generic 4.8.11
  Uname: Linux 4.8.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Dec 23 11:13:13 2016
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-15 (221 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
  SourcePackage: gparted
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-19 (64 days ago)

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