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gparted package

Gparted not working in Wayland Ubuntu

Bug #1726545 reported by florin
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Bug Description

Some apps seem to have problems under Wayland in the new Ubuntu 17.10. Among them, gParted, which is quite a necessary piece of software, without any other capable enough option.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gparted 0.28.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 23 22:09:57 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-21 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
SourcePackage: gparted
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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florin (florin-arjocu) wrote :
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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote :

Thanks for reporting. It's already known - see bug 1713313.
Please mark as duplicate (I got timeout issue).

Changed in gparted (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Curtis Gedak (gedakc) wrote :

An interim fix is available in the upstream GParted 0.30.0 version.

Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776437

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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

I keep getting a timeout as well.

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Jan Claeys (janc) wrote :

For reference: Phillip reported the timeout as bug #1731268

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Dan (randloki) wrote :

Hello, I was wondering if this bug was fixed either on Gparted or on Ubuntu Wayland end? I have a workaround I would like to remove if so as its a security risk(the workaround).

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Curtis Gedak (gedakc) wrote :

The upstream GParted team added a work-around to version 0.30.0 to enable it to run seamlessly under Wayland.

See https://gparted.org/news.php?item=214

Unfortunately the packager for Ubuntu decided to not use the --enable-xhost-root work-around.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1737248

The consequence is that GParted only runs seamlessly on X, and not on Wayland.

You might try petitioning the packager who made the decision.

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Ubfan (ubfan1) wrote :

Still a problem in Ubuntu 18.04.

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Alexander Kallenbach (kallenbachalex) wrote :

Still a problem in Ubuntu 18.10.

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Bob Hyman (bob-hyman) wrote :

And in Ubuntu 19.04. This is getting old. Maybe wayland should relent from their purist stance (after all Unix always allowed root to do absolutely anything to the file system, and that's the keys to the kingdom). Maybe Ubuntu should accept the workaround GParted implements.
But neither side wants to compromise their principals, resulting in a system that's not self-consistent.

Meantime, I've implemented a SUDO wrapper that works for Gparted and other GUI apps, as advised by https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Running_GUI_applications_as_root#Using_xhost

Norbert (nrbrtx)
tags: removed: artful
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