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Synaptic runs without administrative privileges when run from the launcher

Bug #1068988 reported by Mustafa Muhammad on 2012-10-20

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #976638: pkexec does not find any authentication agent. Edit Remove

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This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	synaptic (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I run Synaptic from the Unity launcher, it doesn't start with super user privileges, when running from the dash it works fine, I think the desktop file needs the command "gksu synaptic" or something like it, not only "synaptic".

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: synaptic 0.75.12build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Oct 20 11:09:59 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Mustafa Muhammad (mustafa.muhammad) wrote on 2012-10-20:

#1

CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (23.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (9.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt.txt Edit (85.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt.txt Edit (43.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-10-21:

#2

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Tim Chambers (tbc0) wrote on 2012-10-24:

#3

Here's a nice workaround, at least. First unlock it from the launcher. Then start synaptic from the command line. Unity will show the icon in the launcher. At this point, you can lock to launcher, and Unity knows you launched with sudo.

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Vince (thehappytrucker) wrote on 2012-10-31:

#4

This bug did affect me.Then I opened the dash typed syn and synaptic asked for my password,Then I dropped synaptic to unity launcher and it worked right.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2012-11-14:

#5

The correct command to execute would be synaptic-pkexec, I will try to check where the old synaptic executable is being called from.

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Marco (marco-depa) wrote on 2013-02-16:

#6

I had the same problem (Ubuntu 12.10).
I installed synaptic from Ubuntu software center and it has this problem.
I removed it and then I installed it from terminal. Now it's working properly.

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Martin Spacek (mspacek) wrote on 2014-07-21:

#7

In Xubuntu 14.04, I found I had to replace the exec line in my synaptic.desktop file from "synaptic-pkexec" to "gksu synaptic". Not sure if it's related, but I seem to be having lots of DBus-related issues in Xubuntu 14.04. Argh.

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