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I have found that after switching from Xorg to Wayland on Ubuntu GNOME
16.10 with GNOME 3.22 that GParted does not run when I try to run it as
root. That is when I click the icon and enter my password nothing
happens. I have found that when running what is run when the icon is
clicked that the output in Terminal is (gparted-pkexec):
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/boot.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-120.mount → /dev/null.
Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null.
No protocol specified
(gpartedbin:16832): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/boot-efi.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/boot.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-120.mount.
Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount.
So I am now unable to launch and use GParted as root which is really the
only way I can run it in order to make changes.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: gparted 0.25.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-32.34-generic 4.8.11
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Dec 23 11:13:13 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-05-15 (221 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021)
SourcePackage: gparted
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to yakkety on 2016-10-19 (64 days ago)
** Affects: gparted
Importance: High
Status: Confirmed
** Affects: ubuntu-gnome
Importance: High
Status: Triaged
** Affects: wayland (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Status: Triaged
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug wayland wayland-session
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