Bug#743896: update-manager-gnome: launch of update-manager fails in xfce

Maverick debianmaverick at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 01:35:38 UTC 2014


Package: update-manager-gnome
Version: 0.200.5-2.1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Let's suppose you installed Debian 7 "Wheezy" (the stable branch) with the
desktop environment XFCE, instead of the default Gnome 3.
Now if you install the package update-notifier, it will install other dependent
packages like "update-manager-gnome". This will create a voice in the
applications menu for the update-manager but... If you click on it, it will ask
you a password, but after inserting the pwd, the program will close
immediately.

I think the problem is that the program launcher created in the XFCE
applications menu should be executed with gksudo prefix (and actually it is
not).
For now, to solve the problem you have to modify the launcher manually so that
it executes "gksudo /usr/bin/update-manager" instead of just "/usr/bin/update-
manager".




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages update-manager-gnome depends on:
ii  gconf2               3.2.5-1+build1
ii  gksu                 2.0.2-6
ii  python               2.7.3-4+deb7u1
ii  python-dbus          1.1.1-1
ii  python-gconf         2.28.1+dfsg-1
ii  python-gobject       3.2.2-2
ii  python-gtk2          2.24.0-3+b1
ii  python-support       1.0.15
ii  python-vte           1:0.28.2-5
ii  update-manager-core  0.200.5-2.1

update-manager-gnome recommends no packages.

Versions of packages update-manager-gnome suggests:
ii  software-properties-gtk  0.82.7.1debian1
ii  update-notifier          0.99.3debian11

-- no debconf information



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