Do you have udisks2 installed? The only connection I can think of from gparted to policykit is through udisks, as the gparted script tries to run udisks-inhibit to stop auto mounting. I'm guessing that is where this bug needs reassigned.
On 12/7/2015 7:33 AM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Package: gparted > Version: 0.19.0-3+b2 > Justification: renders package unusable > Severity: grave > > Dear Maintainer, > This is how gparted currently looks. > > [$] aptitude show gparted > > Package: gparted > State: installed > Automatically installed: no > Version: 0.19.0-3+b2 > Priority: optional > Section: gnome > Maintainer: Phillip Susi <ps...@ubuntu.com> > Architecture: amd64 > Uncompressed Size: 6,245 k > Depends: libatkmm-1.6-1v5 (>= 2.22.1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= > 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.44.0), > libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 1:2.24.0), > libpangomm-1.4-1v5 (>= 2.36.0), libparted-fs-resize0 (>= 3.1), > libparted2 (>=3.1), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.2.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), > libuuid1 (>= 2.16) > Suggests: xfsprogs, reiserfsprogs, reiser4progs, jfsutils, ntfs-3g, > dosfstools, mtools, yelp, kpartx, dmraid, dmsetup, gpart > Breaks: udisks2 (< 2.1.5) > Description: GNOME partition editor > GParted uses libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition > tables while several (optional) filesystem tools provide support for > filesystems not included in libparted. > Homepage: http://gparted.sourceforge.net > > It's only if I run it as root that I come to know that why it is > failing otherwise it fails silently as shared in #658316 > > [$] gksudo gparted > [$] > > Although running sudo has the desired effect :- > > ─[$] sudo gparted > > :25] > /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d does not exist. Please > install policykit-1 > > Aside from not telling what is needed, I am under the impression that > policykit is not a favorite in the Debian community, especially > systemd maintainer Michael Biebl. I did hear rumors of policykit being > deprecated and some part/binary of systemd probably doing that. > > Maybe you could look into that as well. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental'), (1, 'unstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (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/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages gparted depends on: > ii libatkmm-1.6-1v5 2.24.1-1 > ii libc6 2.21-0experimental4 > ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-23 > ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-1 > ii libglibmm-2.4-1v5 2.46.2-1 > ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.28-1 > ii libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 1:2.24.4-2+b1 > ii libpangomm-1.4-1v5 2.38.1-1 > ii libparted-fs-resize0 3.2-10 > ii libparted2 3.2-10 > ii libsigc++-2.0-0v5 2.6.2-1 > ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-23 > ii libuuid1 2.27.1-1 > > gparted recommends no packages. > > Versions of packages gparted suggests: > pn dmraid <none> > ii dmsetup 2:1.02.110-1 > ii dosfstools 3.0.28-2 > ii gpart 1:0.3-1 > pn jfsutils <none> > ii kpartx 0.5.0+git1.656f8865-1 > ii mtools 4.0.18-2 > ii ntfs-3g 1:2015.3.14AR.1-1 > pn reiser4progs <none> > ii reiserfsprogs 1:3.6.24-3.1 > ii xfsprogs 4.2.0 > ii yelp 3.16.1-1 > > -- no debconf information > >
