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telperion

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Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 3

gksu stop working with pam-0.99.8.1-3.1

After installing:
pam-0.99.8.1-3.1.pkg

gksu don't work.
(gksu in sudo mode)
gconf-editor
/apps/gksu sudo-mode

Downgrade to pam-0.81-4.pkg
and gksu work again.

Last edited by telperion (2007-08-25 00:23:34)

lolo

Member

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 12

Re: gksu stop working with pam-0.99.8.1-3.1

Same thing here.

Your trick works fine for gksu. The problem is that sudo and, maybe, other apps in official repos are now compiled against pam-0.99.8.1, so when you downgrade, they may behave in a strange maner. That's the case for sudo which then displays the following message : "sudo: /lib/libpam.so.0: no version information available (required by sudo)
".

I have tried to recompile libgksu and gksu on my system. No success : gksu does not work anymore.

I have notified this problem in a bug report ("gksu hangs", severity : medium).

Last edited by lolo (2007-08-29 16:33:44)

telperion

Member

Registered: 2007-08-24

Posts: 3

Re: gksu stop working with pam-0.99.8.1-3.1

Same thing here.

Your trick works fine for gksu. The problem is that sudo and, maybe, other apps in official repos are now compiled against pam-0.99.8.1, so when you downgrade, they may behave in a strange maner. That's the case for sudo which then displays the following message : "sudo: /lib/libpam.so.0: no version information available (required by sudo)
".

I have tried to recompile libgksu and gksu on my system. No success : gksu does not work anymore.

I have notified this problem in a bug report ("gksu hangs", severity : medium).

Downgrade to pam-0.81-4.pkg  and
rebuild sudo-1.6.9p4-1-i686.pkg with ABS (makepkg)
and all work fine,
no more
"sudo: /lib/libpam.so.0: no version information available (required by sudo)".
message.

You can add in   /etc/pacman.conf
in [options]

IgnorePkg   = pam

to prevent update.

Waiting for a working pam package.

(Sorry for my ugly english, i'm italian)

Last edited by telperion (2007-08-29 23:14:35)

lolo

Member

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 12

Re: gksu stop working with pam-0.99.8.1-3.1

Investigating further, it appears that the problem comes from the fact sudo now translates the password prompt. The result is that gksu doesn't work anymore in this case.

See : http://groups.google.com/group/linux.de … 9be056d911

Could this be fixed with a patch in sudo package ? gksu is totally unusable in sudo mode on non-english locales.

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: gksu stop working with pam-0.99.8.1-3.1

Submit a bug report.