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xubuntu - password always fails when trying to install language support

Bug #588518 reported by Derek Kaye
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language-selector (Ubuntu)
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policykit (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: language-selector

in xubuntu, going to Applications>System>Language Support results in the application saying that language support needs to be installed.
Next a password box is given that refuses to accept my password.

After some investigation, it appears that running "gksu gnome-language-selector" does not work, but "gksudo gnome-language-selector" does.

Is it possible that gnome-language-selector is calling gksu in su mode rather than sudo mode?

dezza@Demetria:~$ uname -a
Linux Demetria 2.6.32-22-generic-pae #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 14:57:29 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
dezza@Demetria:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

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Derek Kaye (kayedj) wrote :

After a quick look through the code, in LanguageSelector/gtk/GtkLanguageSelector.py, gksu is mentioned on lines 253, 597 and 617.

It is my understanding that changing these to gksudo, or alternatively adding the option --sudo-mode, or -S should fix this.

Derek Kaye (kayedj)
summary: - xubuntu - password allways fails when trying to install language support
+ xubuntu - password always fails when trying to install language support
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Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this issue and taking the time to thoroughly examine the issue. On my fresh Xubuntu 10.04 installation, I show /usr/bin/gksudo as a symbolic link to /usr/bin/gksu. Further, I show the file /etc/alternatives/libgksu-gconf-defaults containing a single line:
    /aps/gksu/sudo-mode true
The way this appears to me is that gksudo and gksu are exactly the same command, and, include '--sudo-mode true' if no other system changes have been made.

Do you show the same symbolic link in /usr/bin ?

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) wrote :

I also can not reproduce this issue. My password was accepted immediately when I typed it in.

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Derek Kaye (kayedj) wrote :

Hi Charlie,

It appears that I also have the same as you (assuming "/aps/" was a typo):

dezza@Demetria:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/gksudo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 31 18:24 /usr/bin/gksudo -> gksu
dezza@Demetria:~$ cat /etc/alternatives/libgksu-gconf-defaults
/apps/gksu/sudo-mode true
dezza@Demetria:~$

This is an install that started from Lucid alpha 3, so the issue may have originated there. I just found it very strange that it accepted gksudo, but not gksu.

Is there any other config file that may cause it?

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Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) wrote :

I added a task for "policykit" to have that looked at. It is possible that something to do with that is interfering with the command in this situation.

Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca)
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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Arne Goetje (arnegoetje) wrote :

Turns out this is indeed a policykit issue.

Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) wrote :

 Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

Changed in policykit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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