Bug 15969

Summary:	etherape does not start from the desktop menu
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Richard Walker <richard.j.walker>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Pascal Terjan <pterjan>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doktor5000
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	MGA5TOO, MGA4TOO
Source RPM:	etherape-0.9.13-5.mga5.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Richard Walker 2015-05-18 03:00:56 CEST

Description of problem:
The program does not start when the menu entry at menu://applications/Internet is used. The program will start from LXterminal and prompt for a root password. Watching the journal output while trying to use the menu entry reveals that there is something preventing etherape from displaying a password entry prompt:

May 18 01:48:05 localhost userhelper[27792]: pam_tcb(etherape:auth): conversation failed
May 18 01:48:05 localhost userhelper[27792]: pam_tcb(etherape:auth): Unable to obtain a password

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot MGA5 to LXDE desktop
2.Select Internet->EtherApe from the taskbar menu
3.wait forever for the program to start


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Rémi Verschelde 2015-05-18 08:58:03 CEST

Summary: Program does not start from the desktop menu in LXDE => etherape does not start from the desktop menu in LXDE

Comment 1 Rémi Verschelde 2015-05-18 09:06:43 CEST

Confirmed on Mageia 5 with KDE4, so it's not desktop-dependent.

Summary: etherape does not start from the desktop menu in LXDE => etherape does not start from the desktop menu

Comment 2 Samuel Verschelde 2015-05-18 09:15:23 CEST

Also true in Mageia 4.

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA4TOO
Severity: normal => major

Comment 3 David Walser 2015-05-18 14:41:02 CEST

Upstream should convert this to use polkit instead of usermode like we did with our drakxtools.  I guess there's something you could put in /etc/security/console.apps/etherape that would bypass it asking for a password.  It's strange that this isn't working though.

Assignee: bugsquad => pterjan
Whiteboard: MGA4TOO => MGA5TOO, MGA4TOO

Comment 4 Florian Hubold 2015-10-04 17:03:06 CEST

(In reply to David Walser from comment #3)
> Upstream should convert this to use polkit instead of usermode

Can't we simply replace the usermode setup with a call to pkexec and submit that patch upstream?

CC: (none) => doktor5000

Comment 5 Richard Walker 2018-11-02 02:32:23 CET

Closing this due to irrelevance in 2018

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED