pkexec cannot connect to X server on Kubuntu

Bug #1018793 reported by Sandra Karuving
12
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
policykit-1 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

since 12.04 pkgexec is not able to start a gui on kubuntu. it will always end in
pkexec APPLICATION
APPLICATION: cannot connect to X server this will happens with gtk and qt the same. so it you start
pkexec partitionmanager
is the same result as
pkexec gparted

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: policykit-1 0.104-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-2.2-generic 3.5.0-rc4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-2-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.2.5-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 28 12:37:09 2012
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: policykit-1
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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

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

Changed in policykit-1 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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