Ubuntu Artful Desktop July Shakedown

[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2017-07-17 kl. 13:16, skrev Jean-Baptiste Lallement:
> Hi All,
> 
> For anyone interested in testing the latest goodness that landed in 
> Artful, Popey just posted this
> https://popey.com/blog/posts/ubuntu-artful-desktop-july-shakedown.html
> 
> Happy testing!
> 
> JB.
> 

Hi Jean-Baptiste,

I have tested mkusb in the current daily build of Artful Aardvark 
running on Wayland.

mkusb version 12 alias mkusb-dus works with Wayland in Artful Aardvark, 
but there are problems with mkusb-11 with the classic user interface.

mkusb-11 is run via the command line

sudo -H mkusb-11

and it seems that no graphic application programs works, when run with 
sudo -H or gksudo. xterm and nautilus are also failing as illustrated 
with this dialogue,

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tester at tester-SATELLITE-PRO-C850-19W:~$ sudo -H xterm
No protocol specified
Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the 
root user.
The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted
in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the
program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable.
xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: %s
tester at tester-SATELLITE-PRO-C850-19W:~$ gksudo xterm
Error copying '/home/tester/.Xauthority' to '/tmp/libgksu-AFm8zq': No 
such file or directorytester at tester-SATELLITE-PRO-C850-19W:~$ sudo -H 
nautilus
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

(nautilus:12455): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
tester at tester-SATELLITE-PRO-C850-19W:~$ gksudo nautilus
Error copying '/home/tester/.Xauthority' to '/tmp/libgksu-GoAF5n': No 
such file or directorytester at tester-SATELLITE-PRO-C850-19W:~$
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- Do you know if this is by intention or a bug in Artful Aardvark (that 
you cannot run graphic applications with sudo or gksudo)?

- Do you know if there is a workaround or fix in order to run graphic 
applications with elevated permissions in Artful Aardvark?

See also this link

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073&page=36&p=13667109#post13667109

Best regards
Nio