Cannot open display

Bug #1666250 reported by Kirill Romanov
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Files
Fix Released
High
Jeremy Wootten

Bug Description

Just look at the attached screenshot

The policy file isn't somehow associated with files and it fails to open Files as administrator

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Kirill Romanov (djaler1) wrote :
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: New → Confirmed
description: updated
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Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) wrote :

I have only rproducd this bug when running Files on Ubuntu. Running it on Loki (unstable) either on bare metal or in a VirtualBox VM with Ubuntu as host did not trigger it.

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Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten) wrote :

Update: I have confirmed this on a clean install of elementaryos, but is not limited to Files or to pantheon apps, e.g. running "pkexec gedit" in the terminal gave the same error. It is therefore unclear whether this is a bug in Files.

It is possible use sudo but this is less secure.

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Kirill Romanov (djaler1) wrote :

But only Files have an option "Open new windows as Adminstrator"

Changed in pantheon-files:
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Jeremy Wootten (jeremywootten)
milestone: none → juno-beta1
Changed in pantheon-files:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Cody Garver (codygarver)
Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone: juno-beta1 → 0.3.3
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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