[Warty] - password not accepted when loading qtparted - Linz

[Lindsay]

I didn't realize this was a bug and I dont think I could word it well
enough for someone to work out what is going wrong, being a newbie of
sorts.

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 12:14 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Freitag, den 01.04.2005, 20:17 -0800 schrieb Bob Nielsen:
> > On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 12:06:55PM +1200, Lindsay wrote:
> > > I have tried to load qtparted a couple of times recently (just to check
> > > what is partitioned on this HDa.
> > > 
> > > It starts, asks for root password (which I supply) and it tells me the
> > > root password is incorrect.   I know it is correct as I only have the
> > > one password on Ubuntu which allows me to do apt-get etc..
> > > 
> > > Any idea's?
> > 
> > I've noticed that also.  It seems some apps use su-to-root instead of
> > gksudo in the /usr/lib/menu entry.  I filed a bugzilla entry (#8522) on
> > this against synaptic, but bugzilla wouldn't let me file one against
> > qtparted (maybe it only covers packages in main).
> please file bugs on universe packages in malone [1] as announced to this
> list several days ago, this is the new bugtracking system for universe
> packages.
> 
> for the special qtparted issue here i could suggest to use gparted
> instead, it is very well maintained and works....
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 
> [1] https://launchpad.ubuntu.com/distros/ubuntu/+bugs