Kubuntu PPA

.desktop files can not start apps with kdesu

Bug #1375786 reported by Harald Sitter on 2014-09-30

This bug affects 6 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Kubuntu PPA	Invalid	High	Unassigned
synaptic (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Unassigned
Utopic	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

-install synaptic
-start via kickoff

KDEInit could not launch '':
Could not open library '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkdeinit5_'.
Cannot load library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkdeinit5_: (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libkdeinit5_.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

(upstream bug somewhere in kio, notmart has a review for it pending somewhere)

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lp:~rohangarg/synaptic/bug1375786

Merged into lp:synaptic at revision 2167

synaptic-developers: Pending requested 2014-12-08

lp:synaptic

lp:debian/synaptic

lp:ubuntu/vivid-proposed/synaptic

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote on 2014-09-30:

upstream:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338756
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338755
https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120185/

Jonathan Riddell (jr) on 2014-10-08

summary:

- kdesu more broken
+ .desktop files can not start apps with kdesu

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Rohan Garg (rohangarg) wrote on 2014-12-08:

Synaptic should probably start using pkexec instead of kdesu like it does for the regular gtk frontend.

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Leszek Lesner (leszek-lesner) wrote on 2014-12-09:

In general pkexec can be used for every application. Would make the password prompt more consistent also.

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Rohan Garg (rohangarg) wrote on 2014-12-09:

Already being discussed upstream on KDE Frameworks Devel, there are going to be focus stealing issues as mentioned on [1] if we use pkexec everywhere. So this needs to be solved in pkexec first before moving forward.

[1] https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-frameworks-devel/2014-November/020554.html

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote on 2014-12-09:

The bigger issue is that neither DBUS_SESSION_BUS nor DISPLAY is forwarded through pkexec which prevents KUniqueApplications (and their KF5 counterpart one presumes) from starting as uniqueness is implemented through dbus and auto-starting a session dbus at least on X11 requires DISPLAY to be set (not that I know why).

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Rohan Garg (rohangarg) wrote on 2015-01-19:

patch Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

Patch for Synaptic

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Chris J Arges (arges) wrote on 2015-01-21:

Rejected upload as it contains extra debian/patches/series file. Please fix this and reupload, thanks.

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) on 2015-01-24

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Medium
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2015-02-02:

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

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

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2015-02-05:

Please add the SRU header as mentioned on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

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Bruno (bruno666-666) wrote on 2015-03-08:

#10

Possible workaround :

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/kdesudo /usr/bin/kdesu

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MaXo (mahmood-188) wrote on 2015-04-17:

#11

had the same issue.

Bruno's workaround did the trick! Thanks!

Flames_in_Paradise (ellisistfroh-deactivatedaccount) on 2015-11-04

tags:

added: utopic

Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) on 2016-03-30

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu Utopic):
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

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Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) wrote on 2018-07-07:

#12

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Kubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Kubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Kubuntu version. If you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running only once:
apport-collect 1375786

and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in kubuntu-ppa:
status:	Confirmed → Incomplete
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Released → Incomplete
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu Utopic):
status:	Invalid → Incomplete

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Paul White (paulw2u) wrote on 2022-12-16:

#13

Bug report did not expire due to bug watch

May well have been fixed but with no response to comment #12
after over four years I'm closing this as 'Invalid'.

Changed in kubuntu-ppa:
status:	Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu Utopic):
status:	Incomplete → Invalid