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synaptic fails to start from unity launcher

Bug #824985 reported by Stephen Cradock
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synaptic (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

after the latest update (changelog talks about switching from gksu to -pkexec for authentification) synaptic doesn't start from the unity launcher. Starting in a terminal with "gksu synaptic" works fine.

Note, this is serious when update-manager is also out of commission!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Aug 11 22:52:26 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110610)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Stephen Cradock (s-cradock) wrote :
Launchpad Janitor (janitor)
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur) wrote :

Do you get an error message if you try launching "synaptic-pkexec" from the command line?
What about if you try launching "pkexec synaptic" from the command line?

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Mingming Ren (portis25) wrote :

I think it could be a path problem.

I change this line in synaptic.desktop
Exec=synaptic-pkexec
with
Exec=/usr/sbin/synaptic-pkexec

And now it works.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package synaptic - 0.75.2ubuntu4

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synaptic (0.75.2ubuntu4) oneiric; urgency=low

  * debian/synaptic-pkexec: use /bin/sh, not /bin/bash.
  * debian/rules: install synaptic-pkexec wrapper to /usr/bin, not
    /usr/sbin as it may not be in the path. (LP: #824985, LP: #827878)
  * debian/patches/11_use-pkexec.dpatch: rename extra .patch from filename,
    remove superfluous line break in policy files.
 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:44:11 -0400

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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