Bug#423596: gnome-system-tools: "The configuration could not be loaded" bug

[Hongzheng Wang]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 2.18.1-1
Severity: important

Hi,

After the upgrade, with the up-to-date system-tools-backends (2.2.1-2),
gnome-system-tools utilities fail to start.  For example, gksu
network-admin will complain "The configuration could not be loaded"
after root password is accepted (if the root password is typed in
incorrectly, an "incorrect password" dialog will appear instead), and
report errors in console:

(network-admin:2610): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session
manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

(network-admin:2610): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error
communicating with the backends: Process
/usr/share//system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl
exited with status 2

(network-admin:2610): Liboobs-WARNING **: There was an unknown error
communicating with the backends: Process
/usr/share//system-tools-backends-2.0/scripts/SystemToolsBackends.pl
exited with status 2

It is said that this problem is perhaps due to the new arch of
system-tools-backends.  And I have also tried to add my normal user
account into the new added stb-admin group, and start the utilies by
gksudo.  Unfortunately, it does not work too.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  gconf2                    2.18.0.1-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.19-3       Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.18.0-2       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.18.0-2       Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.18.0-5       The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.5-7          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                 1.4.6-1        The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.0.2-5        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1            2.4.2-1.2      generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6              2.2.1-5        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4               2.18.0.1-3     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.6.0-4      library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.12.12-1      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0         0.8.1-2        GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0               2.18.0-4       The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.14.0-2       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.18.1-2       The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            1:2.18.1-2     GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.10.12-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                   1:1.0.3-2      X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libiw29                   29~pre21-1     Wireless tools - library
ii  libnautilus-extension1    2.18.1-2       libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liboobs-1-3               2.18.1-2       GObject based interface to system-
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.14.7-0.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.16.4-1       Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0                  1.10-3         lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                    1:1.0.2-2      X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.0.3-7      X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1               1:1.1.8-2      X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                  1:1.0.3-2      X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                1:4.0.3-2      X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                    1:1.0.1-4      X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1              1:1.0.2-1      X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                   2.6.28.dfsg-1  GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.2.1-1      X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.2-1      X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  perl                      5.8.8-7        Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-14     compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools recommends:
ii  gksu                          2.0.0-4    graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-control-center          1:2.18.1-1 utilities to configure the GNOME d

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