Bleachbit as root fails to launch

[Qqmike]

Wrong forum

Btw, the mods started my thread for me by moving a post I made in an old thread, but I just noticed it is under Pre-Release Testing. It shoud be under 14.04. Thanks.

[Qqmike]

I filed this as a bug.

Bleachbit as root fails to launch after running as user

Bug #1377719
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bleachbit/+bug/1377719

[Qqmike]

The version offered through Muon Package Manager is Bleachbit 1.0. I got the upgrade to version 1.4 (the latest for Linux). The problem persists with 1.4.

[Qqmike]

Nice investigative work S-R, makes sense. But note this:
(1) It works OK in 12.04.
(2) and note this pattern:

After reading your post, I rebooted.
Then successfully ran Bleachbit as admin 3 times in a row.
Then ran Bleachbit as user: OK.
Then ran Bleachbit as admin: Failed: it would not open.

Then did Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
Then ran Bleachbit as admin: OK, no problem.
Then ran Bleachbit again as admin: OK, no problem.
Then ran Bleachbit as user: OK.
Then ran Bleachbit as admin: Failed: it would not open.

(So, in particular, running Bleachbit as user BEFORE running it as admin, causes a failure to open as admin--on my system (and for the user in the link posted in #1 above).)

[SteveRiley]

Well...

steve@t520:~$ [B]ll /usr/bin/bleachbit [/B]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 24  2013 /usr/bin/bleachbit -> ../share/bleachbit/bleachbit.py*

steve@t520:~$ [B]cat /usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit.py[/B]
#!/usr/bin/env python

{...snip...}

import os
import sys

if 'posix' == os.name and os.path.isdir('/usr/share/bleachbit'):
    # This path contains bleachbit/{C,G}LI.py .  This section is
    # unnecessary if installing BleachBit in site-packages.
    sys.path.append('/usr/share/')

if 1 == len(sys.argv):
    import gtk
    try:
        gtk.gdk.Screen().get_display()
    except RuntimeError:
        print "Could not open X display"
        sys.exit(1)
    import bleachbit.GUI
    gui = bleachbit.GUI.GUI()
    gtk.main()
else:
    import bleachbit.CLI
    bleachbit.CLI.process_cmd_line()

Bleachbit is a Gtk application likely intended for GNOME systems. If perhaps you don't have enough of Gtk installed, the line gtk.gdk.Screen().get_display() is failing somehow?

...Steve

[Qqmike]

Still a bit preoccupied setting up 14.04, I do intend to chase down this glitch (although whatthefunk probably would have found a solution is there were one), but I'll post this for inquiring tech minds as I continue to ponder:

~$ kdesudo bleachbit
kdesudo(18196) KDESu::KDESuPrivate::KCookie::getXCookie: No X authentication info set for display ":0"

Bus: : open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
No protocol specified
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
Could not open X display


(Btw, I do not have this problem in 12.04.)

[whatthefunk]

Same here. Tried running it over the weekend with no luck.

[Qqmike]

Ref: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...ails-to-launch

Just installed 14.04 and having the same problem described in OP. (No problem, though, in 12.04.)
Still observing this; anyone have input, please post!

For example, deleting .Xauthority ... in user account: when to do this? Do it and re-boot?