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Auteur: Svante Signell
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Aan: devuan-dev
Onderwerp: Re: [devuan-dev] synaptic failing to start from menu
On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 09:18 +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:24:59PM -0400, fsmithred wrote:
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> >
> > I just tested it in an install from desktop-live-rc with root account
> > enabled.
> >
> > Before adding policykit-1-gnome:
> > - selecting synaptic from the menu did nothing.
> > - starting synaptic-pkexed in terminal asked for the root password and
> > then rejected it when it was entered.
> >
> > After adding policykit-1-gnome:
> > - graphical password entry box comes up when started from menu or
> > terminal. And it accepts the password.
> >
>
>
> Great. I have rebuilt tasksel to include the dep to
> task-xfce-desktop. Now we just need to merge the PR that fixes the
> case of disabled root account and rebuild policykit. 


Good to know. I'll push a new version to ascii-proposed soon. Do any of you know
who Jjp137 so I can credit him/her in the Changelog?