Bug 1266771

Please provide the terminal output from the gparted command onwards,
including the error message.

uname -a
Linux F23SDC 4.2.1-300.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Sep 21 22:13:13 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


With regular Gnome

[leslie@F23SDC ~]$ sudo  su
[root@F23SDC leslie]# gparted /dev/sda
Failed to execute operation: Access denied
======================
libparted : 3.2
======================

Even with the error message, gparted displays and functions properly


However ....

With Wayland

[leslie@F23SDC ~]$ sudo su
[root@F23SDC leslie]# gparted /dev/sdb
Failed to execute operation: Access denied
No protocol specified

(gpartedbin:4800): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
Failed to execute operation: Access denied
And there is no Gparted to be had.
 
After this last test, Gparted launched from Gnome shell by clicking on the icon, does not start.

With above listed kernel, and Wayland,  Gparted does not start.

I select to list the icons, I clicked on the gparted icon. I see the "rotating icon (background process) active, but before I can complete entry of my password for sudo, gparted indication has disappeared.

This is not a GParted bug.  It is that under Wayland, X11 clients run as
another user (via su or sudo) are not authorised to connect to the X11
display server.  However under native X11, clients run as another user
are authorised to connect to the X11 display server.


Under native X11 this works:

    [mike@localhost ~]$ sudo xdpyinfo | head -3
    [sudo] password for mike:
    name of display:    :0
    version number:    11.0
    vendor string:    Fedora Project


Under Wayland this fails:

    [mike@localhost ~]$ sudo xdpyinfo | head -3
    [sudo] password for mike:
    No protocol specified
    xdpyinfo:  unable to open display ":0".


So far I have found these workarounds to allow GParted to run:

1) Login as root to the GNOME on Wayland desktop

2) Allow all local connections to the X11 display server

    xhost +local:


Under native X11 the GNOME Display Manager (gdm) creates an xauth
security token to allow apps access to the X11 display server, but under
Wayland it doesn't.  I tried this but so far I haven't been able to make
it work:

    [mike@localhost ~]$ export XAUTHORITY=/run/user/`id -u`/Xauthority
    [mike@localhost ~]$ touch $XAUTHORITY
    [mike@localhost ~]$ xauth add $DISPLAY . `mcookie`
    [mike@localhost ~]$ sudo xdpyinfo | head -3
    Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyxdpyinfo:  unable to open display ":0".


Thanks,
Mike Fleetwood (GParted Developer)

I think this bug needs changing to the following but I don't have the
rights:

Summary:   Under Wayland apps run via su or sudo are not authorised to
           connect to the X11 display server
Component: gdm

Leslie,

You might try raising a new bug report with these details referring back
to this bug 1266771 comment 4 for more details.

Bug 1268869 Submitted.

(In reply to Mike Fleetwood from comment #5)
> I think this bug needs changing to the following but I don't have the
> rights:
> 
> Summary:   Under Wayland apps run via su or sudo are not authorised to
>            connect to the X11 display server
> Component: gdm
> 

Done!

I will close the other bug report s duplicate of this one.

*** Bug 1268869 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is still an issue with the just released Fedora 23.

Marking as dupe of bug 1274451, as it contains wayland developers comments.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1274451 ***

This bug, filed September, duplicate bug filed November.

Just say, this bug replaced by bug 1274451

Still is a problem for F25 beta.

The other bug has more data. No need to comment here anymore, it's closed.