Re: [Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-14 Thread Leroy Wolins
It appears to me that there are too many things wrong with P5KU to make it worthwhile for me -, or anyone else-, to spend more time trying to fix it. I'm going to reinstall. I have done that often for Windows, and it has usually solved the problems. That machine is generally sluggish. If it were

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-14 Thread Thomas K
@Leroy: The thing about composing e-mail in Evolution is, as far as I can see, completely unrelated--try looking at other bug reports or forum posts to see if anyone else has experienced that. Anything that would normally use gksudo--including the upgrade manager and synaptic being launched the no

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-14 Thread Leroy Wolins
I'm still trying. To review a little bit: 1) The download arrow on the tool bar does not work. When I click on it the rotating ball rotates indefinitely. 2) apt-get update, does not work, but sudo synaptic --upgrade-mode, does work. I used this before but only installed the current updates. this ti

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-14 Thread Leroy Wolins
Despite the apparent success, the problems persists and there are more of them. For example, I can not remove any application, and , when composing an Email message using Evolution, I can type faster than the cursor moves -- I use two, maybe three, fingers. I suspect that the only solution is reins

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-13 Thread Michael Vogt
@Leroy: Thanks for your test, I updated the text to explicitely mention that "gedit" instead of edit should be used. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: gksu When sudo can not resolve the hostname there is a race condition that prevents gksu from detecting the password prompt.

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-12 Thread Leroy Wolins
Under the tuteledge of Thomas Kluyver, I executed the first 6 lines in "TEST CASE," above. It did not hang. I did not attempt to execute lines 7 through 9. -- race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237325 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-10 Thread Leroy Wolins
As you can tell from the attachment, I can't remove the the line. ** Attachment added: "edit.jpg" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15175469/edit.jpg -- race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237325 You received this bug notification because you are a me

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-09 Thread Michael Vogt
Hm, this should have been autoclosed on June 04 by my intrepid upload, not sure why it was not. ** Changed in: libgksu (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237325 You received this bug notificat

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-09 Thread Martin Pitt
Copied to hardy-updates. ** Changed in: libgksu (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/237325 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-09 Thread Martin Pitt
Intrepid has a newer version, cannot copy hardy-proposed to intrepid. Michael, please fix this in intrepid ASAP. ** Tags added: verification-done ** Tags removed: verification-needed ** Changed in: libgksu (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Vogt (mvo) Status: New => Fix Commi

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-05 Thread Balaam's Miracle
Before installing this update, any command called with gksu/gksudo would just hang without error message if /etc/hosts did not include my local machine name. I've originally worked around the original bug (#55172) by modifying the first line of /etc/hosts so that i reads "127.0.0.1 localhost joh

[Bug 237325] Re: race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname

2008-06-04 Thread Martin Pitt
Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here ** Changed in: gksu (Ubuntu Hardy) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed ** Changed in: libgksu (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: gksu => libgksu -- race condition when sudo can not resolve hostname https://