Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Tom H]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 October 2017 at 16:19, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Two people called it deprecated in this thread.
>>
>> Googled this morning:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1551951
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818366
>>
>> Unless you've set up synaptic with polkit, you must be using X.
>
> My bad. Sorry.
>
> But it's not Synaptic. No apps which require root permissions
> currently run under Wayland. This is not a bug, it is by design.
>
> https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50314
>
> But there are workarounds:
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/961967/why-dont-gksu-gksudo-work-with-wayland
>
> And it's still under development.

No problem. Thanks for the links.

Yes, it's not a synaptic but a wayland problem. There's an RH bug
about gparted (and others) where a dev says that gparted and any app
that needs to run as root should use polkit. Since it's a problem
that's been unresolved for two years, there must be more work to do
than simply copy, for example, the NM polkit files and edit them.

Are you sure that "xhost ..." isn't using Xwayland rather than wayland
proper? I wouldn't expect wayland to use any "x"/"X" prefixed
executable or file natively.