Bug 20468 - Some problem in gksu-polkit makes VirtualBox GUI fail to install extpacks
Summary: Some problem in gksu-polkit makes VirtualBox GUI fail to install extpacks
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: All Packagers
QA Contact:
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Whiteboard: MGA6TOO
Keywords: NEEDHELP
Depends on:
Blocks: 18962
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Reported: 2017-03-13 17:36 CET by Morgan Leijström
Modified: 2018-05-13 22:05 CEST (History)
7 users (show)

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Source RPM: gksu-polkit-0.0.3-0.git20131130.12.mga6
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Description Morgan Leijström 2017-03-13 17:36:20 CET
See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18962#c19
Morgan Leijström 2017-03-13 17:37:05 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA5TOO

Comment 1 Marja Van Waes 2017-03-13 18:07:23 CET
(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #0)
> See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18962#c19


That is a comment from Otto Leipälä:
> (In reply to Morgan Leijström from
> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18962#c15 )
> > Ozky suggest it is a problem with gksu-polkit
> > https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8518&p=66764#p66764
> 
> Yes because everytime it's installed it fails to install extension pack in
> any desktop and when it's removed it's installed without errors,kdesu4 and
> Cauldron kf5/kdesu works installing it or without any polkit gui installed.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => gnome

Comment 2 Olav Vitters 2017-03-13 18:28:04 CET
gksu-polkit is hosted on Debian git with a last commit in 2010. It's not hosted on git.gnome.org so I'm not planning to do anything here. Someone made a wiki page on GNOME, but it's been moved to 'Attic' which is a clear indicator that it's deprecated.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDHELP
CC: (none) => olav

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2017-03-13 18:58:00 CET
(In reply to Olav Vitters from comment #2)
> gksu-polkit is hosted on Debian git with a last commit in 2010. It's not
> hosted on git.gnome.org so I'm not planning to do anything here. Someone
> made a wiki page on GNOME, but it's been moved to 'Attic' which is a clear
> indicator that it's deprecated.

It's required by

areca-backup
cinnamon
gksu-polkit
mate-menu
mate-system-monitor
pcmanfm
rmanage

CC'ing their maintainers, as far as they're not called nobody, and reassigning to all packagers collectively.

Maybe gksu-polkit can be replaced in cinnamon, mate etc. by a better maintained tool?

CC: (none) => joequant, lists.jjorge, matteo.pasotti, tarakbumba
Assignee: gnome => pkg-bugs

Morgan Leijström 2018-03-08 11:36:25 CET

Blocks: (none) => 18962

Morgan Leijström 2018-05-13 21:35:52 CEST

Whiteboard: MGA5TOO => MGA6TOO

Comment 4 Kristoffer Grundström 2018-05-13 22:05:09 CEST
Seems like the ext pack is built by root. I see no other explanation since you have to use VBoxManage as root to install it or at least sudo rights.

CC: (none) => hamnisdude


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