Hi,
> I'm not convinced it is libpam-systemd which is responsible here. You can check [1] to get some info about libpam-systemd doing something wrong here. Also we had this issue for months in Linux Mint before Clement Lefebvre made a patch [2] that fixed it. After the patched libpam-systemd had been released for Mint, the problem was gone. That was it. No patching gksu, no patching dconf. > So, if you insist on using su or gksu to run X/GNOME applications (which > is imho not a good idea), I would suggest that you use it only in > combination with "-l". Well, that seems to work for me (I'm using MATE though - but it's affected by the issue as well). But it's not a complete solution. Some apps are meant to be run via gksu and have gksu without '-l' in their .desktop files. For example, some of the reporters simply launched a root terminal and then ran some apps in it. The .desktop file for launching that root terminal is shipped with gksu itself and has no '-l' in it. Even if you tell users to remember to always run apps manually with gksu (instead of using root terminal) and always specify '-l', they might easily forget about that. I heard several times it's not a good idea to use gksu, but no one suggested a good, complete replacement for it. The current situation is that we have to use it sometimes. A few apps like Synaptic or GParted have pkexec support, others don't have it and we use gksu with them. > In unstable, this problem still persists (obviously). > The only difference is, that gnome shell doesn't lock up anymore because > of that. If that is due to a change dconf or gnome-shell, I haven't > investigated. Ok, so maybe it's time to remove 'moreinfo' and 'unreproducible' tags? [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753882 [2] https://github.com/linuxmint/systemd-betsy/commit/f7ab85f1e1169ac1598dfc1fba1c01063840b3c5.patch _______________________________________________ Pkg-systemd-maintainers mailing list Pkg-systemd-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-systemd-maintainers
