[OpenIndiana-discuss] Unmount DVD from GUI fails with oi_151a8

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 20/08/2013 22:31, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 09:59:52PM +0200, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> On 20/08/2013 15:21, Gary Mills wrote:
>>>
>>> I thought that /usr/lib/pm-launch was the way to run commands as
>>> root from the Gnome menus.  It prompts for the administrator account
>>> and password.  Does this no longer work under oi_151a8?
>>>
>> The only way to circumvent this is using sudo, which is a bit
>> difficult to use in menus (as gksu -S -u root), I tried, but
>> somehow it fails to get the password window open.
>
> Won't gksu use su instead of sudo if you give it the right options?
>
> I don't use sudo, but when I tried:
>
>      /usr/lib/pm-launch /usr/bin/packagemanager &
>
> in a terminal window as an ordinary user, under oi_151a8, it brought
> up the package manager GUI running as root.  It didn't prompt me for
> either the user name or password, though.
>
Indeed you can use gksu on the commandline, but the problem
is that the menu entries run on the underlying shell where
Gnome was started.
So 'gksu /usr/bin/packagemanager' seemingly works, but if you
look into your .xession-errors file, you see that it cannot
contact the gconf server, which may or may not have impact,
this depends on use of a proxy for outside connections, as
the proxy configuration is drawn from the gconf server
(same is done in the python script /usr/lib/pm-launch).
I think Milan Jurik found a way to work around that problem.