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Hamed
Asked: 2012-03-30 12:27:42 +0800 CST

Why GParted doesn't open?

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When I open GParted , the icon of GParted appear near cursor for 1 minute, but after that the icon disappears and GParted didn't open

but when I run it on terminal with this instruction

sudo gparted

GParted opens immediately.

I was had Ubuntu 11.10 and recently installed KDE on it .

kde gparted

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It's a bug in gparted (to be precise, the wrapper around it, gparted-pkexec). If you run gparted-pkexec in the terminal, you'll see something like:

    No protocol specified
No protocol specified

(gpartedbin:19659): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

    Replace the contents of to use kdesudo instead of pkexec to work around this issue:

    sudo tee /usr/bin/gparted-pkexec <<'EOF'
#!/bin/sh
kdesudo "/usr/sbin/gparted" "$@"
EOF

    Update: this is a bug in PolicyKit combined with a condition in KDE ($XAUTHORITY is not set).

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