[SOLVED] gparted refuses password

[engelsepiet]

I have downloaded and installed gparted in Kubuntu 10.0.4. To run, it requires the root password, but will not accept anything I type in. The password is correct, I used it to go to my account and change the root password! I did this three times. I also typed the password into a text editor, and cut and pasted it into the password box to eliminate the possibility of a typo. Advice gratefully received.

[Detonate]

Re: gparted refuses password

Hmmm, I have gparted installed and I can't duplicate the problem. The only thing I can suggest is to reinstall gparted after first removing it with the

sudo apt-get purge gparted

command.

[dibl]

Re: gparted refuses password

Is this problem strictly limited to gparted? Have you tried Alt-F2 "kdesudo kate", for example?

[engelsepiet]

Re: gparted refuses password

Is this problem strictly limited to gparted? Have you tried Alt-F2 "kdesudo kate", for example?

Thanks, just tried that and kate starts up ok. If has revealed something, however. I have password entry set to show three black circles for every character entered and this worked when I entered the password for kate, but with gparted I only get one black circle per character typed. Is this significant, do you think?

[engelsepiet]

Re: gparted refuses password

Hmmm, I have gparted installed and I can't duplicate the problem. The only thing I can suggest is to reinstall gparted after first removing it with the

sudo apt-get purge gparted

command.

I've removed and reinstalled gparted twice and also restarted kubuntu a few times. Doesn't make any difference.

[kubicle]

Re: gparted refuses password

I have downloaded and installed gparted in Kubuntu 10.0.4. To run, it requires the root password, but will not accept anything I type in. The password is correct, I used it to go to my account and change the root password! I did this three times. I also typed the password into a text editor, and cut and pasted it into the password box to eliminate the possibility of a typo. Advice gratefully received.

1. Does using 'kdesudo gparted' work?
2. With "but will not accept anything I type in", do you mean you get an error message telling that the password is incorrect...or does it simply refuse to start.
3. With "root password", do you literally mean root's password (which isn't set on *buntus)...or admin user's (sudo) password?

[Bonster]

Re: gparted refuses password

I had this problem b4, it wasnt gparted, it was the gksu/gksudo that was the problem. It loops the password prompt even if u have the correct password.

I think i used this command to correct it

gksu-properties

Try that, set it to "sudo" and "enable"

[engelsepiet]

Re: gparted refuses password

1. Does using 'kdesudo gparted' work?
2. With "but will not accept anything I type in", do you mean you get an error message telling that the password is incorrect...or does it simply refuse to start.
3. With "root password", do you literally mean root's password (which isn't set on *buntus)...or admin user's (sudo) password?

1. Yes! Thank you.
2. Password incorrect.
3. Sorry, not yet familiar with the terminology I meant the admin password.

[kubicle]

Re: gparted refuses password

I had this problem b4, it wasnt gparted, it was the gksu/gksudo that was the problem. It loops the password prompt even if u have the correct password.

I think i used this command to correct it

gksu-properties

Try that, set it to "sudo" and "enable"

You're probably correct. Since gparted recommends gksu, it will get installed by default with gparted. And gparted will likely use gksu by default to gain root privileges. And if gksu hasn't been configured to use sudo it will likely expect the root password (literally) rather than a sudo password.

So either enabling sudo for gksu or using kdesudo explicitly should do the trick.

[engelsepiet]

Re: gparted refuses password

Thank you all,

The problem is solved and I've learnt a bit!

[dibl]

Re: [SOLVED] gparted refuses password

Postscript, regarding the possible Gnome/gtk "contamination" issues:

I just installed and took a look at partitionmanager. It uses the same libparted back end, but KDE and qt4 libraries for the user interface. It looks good -- very intuitive and informative. I didn't actually execute any changes to my disks today, but I would suppose it gets the job done just the same as gparted. So, with partitionmanager available, one can now consider NOT having to install gparted and bringing in the gnome stuff.

Same as muon is a good package manager interface, and we're not stuck pulling in synaptic if we need a GUI to look at the packages. KDE really is getting better!