[solved] gparted error

nTia89 · 2014-01-18 16:13:24

hi fellows,
if I launch gparted from menu, it doesn't start....

and if I launch gparted_polkit from terminal I get this error:

[mattia@arch-dekstop ~]$ gparted_polkit 
Error executing command as another user: No authentication agent found.

how can I solve these problems?

thank you

Last edited by nTia89 (2014-01-23 17:38:59)

karol · 2014-01-18 16:18:56

Do you have polkit installed?

nTia89 · 2014-01-18 16:19:44

sure:

[mattia@arch-dekstop ~]$ yy polkit
1 extra/polkit 0.112-1 [installed]
    Application development toolkit for controlling system-wide privileges
2 extra/polkit-kde 0.99.0-2
    Daemon providing a polkit authentication UI for KDE
3 extra/polkit-qt 0.103.0-2
    A library that allows developers to access PolicyKit API with a nice 
    Qt-style API
4 community/lxpolkit 0.1.0-3 (lxde)
    Simple polkit authentication agent for LXDE
5 community/mate-polkit 1.6.1-1 (mate)
    PolicyKit integration for the MATE desktop
6 community/polkit-gnome 0.105-2 [installed]
    Legacy polkit authentication agent for GNOME

Scimmia · 2014-01-18 16:21:30

You need a polkit authentication agent running. Something like lxpolkit, polkit-kde, polkit-gnome, etc

nTia89 · 2014-01-18 16:26:29

Scimmia wrote:

You need a polkit authentication agent running. Something like lxpolkit, polkit-kde, polkit-gnome, etc

then, how can I start the agent?

karol · 2014-01-18 16:32:18

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit ?

nTia89 · 2014-01-18 16:53:16

I found the issue:

polkit-gnome executes policykit agent only in a gnome session
because the .desktop file contains

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;

now I installed (beside polkit-gnome) lxpolkit

result: now gparted_polkit asks the password but when I type it, return another error:

[mattia@arch-dekstop ~]$ gparted_polkit 
Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

how can I solve it?

Last edited by nTia89 (2014-01-18 16:54:08)

karol · 2014-01-18 16:57:15

Use sudo?

nTia89 · 2014-01-18 17:01:28

karol wrote:

Use sudo?

sure, this is the way I used since I installed gparted: open a terminal and launch gparted with sudo
that is slower than click on the menu icon
...now I want to fix it...

nTia89 · 2014-01-23 13:58:51

anyone else have this problem?

henk · 2014-01-23 17:06:25

You can have only one of the two packages installed. Using both they will block each other.
On XFCE I stayed with polkit-gnome and created the dektopfile in /.config/autostart.
Polkit-Gnome.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=0.9.4
Type=Application
Name=Polkit-Gnome
Comment=
Exec=/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Hidden=false

Maybe it works also with your DE or WM.

Steef435 · 2014-01-23 17:10:25

No problems here. I can run gparted_polkit just fine using polkit-gnome under bspwm. This is how I start it in my .xinitrc:
/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &

What wm are you using and how do you start lxpolkit?

Last edited by Steef435 (2014-01-23 17:10:54)

nTia89 · 2014-01-23 17:41:29

ok, now it is solved!

thank to all

Steef435 · 2014-01-23 18:14:48

Nice! Would you mind sharing how you solved it?

Last edited by Steef435 (2014-01-23 18:15:19)

nTia89 · 2014-01-23 20:12:22

sure! I summarize:
even though I had a policykit agent installed (polkit-gnome)
gparted_polkit hasn't work
the problem was that polkit-gnome starts the agent at startup ONLY in a GNOME environment
so, I that use openbox, I didn't have any agent
the solution for polkit-gnome and consequently gparted_polkit problem is to start manually the policykit agent, how do it has no importance.
personally I already use the autostart file of openbox for other thing, so it was easy add the line

/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &

in it

Pednick · 2014-10-21 00:24:06

nTia89 wrote:

anyone else have this problem?

I do but even more of a problem and maybe its related, ever since the newest kernel, I can't install

VMware-Workstation-Full-10.0.3-1895310.x86_64.bundle, I get ths error:

Extracting VMware Installer...done.
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked
/tmp/vmis.SbhNmP/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: line 56: 1594 Aborted (core dumped) VMWARE_INSTALLER="$VMWARE_INSTALLER" VMISPYVERSION="$VMISPYVERSION" "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmis-launcher "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmware-installer.py "$@"

Trilby · 2014-10-21 01:27:40

Pednick, please do not "necrobump" old threads, especially solved ones. Also I don't see the vaguest connection between your issue and the one in this thread. Please start a new thread if you want help with your issue.

Closed.

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