Bug 1596865

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gparted-0.31.0-4.el7 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-b0d388c572

Just using the same .spec file from Fedora 27/28 on EPEL 7 has
some issues because of the differences between the OSs.  (I assumed you
would start from the existing EPEL 7 .spec file and update as required).

First issue I encountered is that GParted fails to launch from the
GParted menu icon.

Created attachment 1457937 [details]
gparted launched from menu

I saw you -1 karma on bodhi and tried to launch gparted from my centos install. I cannot reproduce this at all.

I have (1) upgrading from 0.19 (currently in epel), (2) installing gparted afresh. I  have done both these in a new centos install and my current centos vm.

Additionally, I have launched from command line and from menu - both under xfce and GNOME.

I am able to luanch gparted in all these situations.

can you launch from the terminal and see if some error shows up? I need more information on how to reproduce this.

Sorry about the lack of details.  I had a second PolKit action file
named /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.local.policy which
was for /usr/local/bin/gparted in addition to the one installed by the
latest gparted-0.31.0-4.el7 package.  This appeared to be confusing
PolKit resulting in the allow_gui setting not working, so the DISPLAY
environment variable was not being carried through pkexec, hence gparted
was failing with:
  (gpartedbin:9622): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Removed that second PolKit action file and I can now run GParted from
the GUI menu and the command line.

gparted-0.31.0-4.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-b0d388c572

I have looked at the .spec file and see a couple of issues:

* configure uses --enable-online-resize flag

  Normally this flag shouldn't be used because the configure script will
  automatically set this when (lib)parted >= 3.2 is found, which
  includes online resize support.  However bug #1423357 [1] back ported
  the online resize change [2] into parted 3.1-29.el7 [3].

  I specifically install previous parted-3.1-28 and ran new
  gparted-0.31.0-4.  It allows online resize to be requested but fails
  when implemented.

  Therefore gparted package must depend on parted >= 3.1-29.  Suggest
  a comment in the .spec file why --enable-online-resize flag can be
  used.

  [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1423357
  [2] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/commit/?id=f09ca967a0bc443b869a6fad5b5ffe8e95c3fe9a
  [3] parted changelog
      2017-08-10 - Brian C. Lane <bcl> - 3.1-29
      - Add support for NVMe devices
      Resolves: rhbz#1316239
      - Backport partition resize command
      Resolves: rhbz#1423357


* configure uses --enable-xhost-root flag

  This is intended as a workaround for running GParted on Wayland.  It
  uses xhost to grant root access to the users X11 display session.
  This is unnecessary on EPEL which sets up XAUTHORITY environment
  variable and xauth file.

  Should remove --enable-xhost-root configure flag.


Otherwise GParted works well and the LVM PV shrinking bug is fixed.

Mike, thanks for the comments.

I have edited the EPEL7 update. please test it.

gparted-0.31.0-4.el7.1 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 7. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-b0d388c572

gparted-0.31.0-4.el7.1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-b0d388c572

All looks good now.

* Confirmed that upgrading to gparted-0.31.0-4.el7.1 upgrades to
  parted-3.1-29.el7 as a dependency.

* Confirmed that gparted shell wrapper no longer unnecessarily uses
  xhost to add root as an X display authorised user.
  - Can still run GParted from the GUI menu.
  - Can still run GParted from the command line both as normal user and
    root.

I have just submitted the following pull request:
* Update to GParted 0.31.0 in EL6
  https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gparted/pull-request/2

Tested and confirmed GParted launches and works as expected from the
desktop menu item and from the command line as normal user and root.

Thanks,
Mike

gparted-0.31.0-4.el7.1 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Can the above pull request for GParted 0.31.0 in EL6 be reviewed please.
Thanks,
Mike

 Sorry for the delay. I will do this in the coming day or two.

gparted-0.31.0-1.el6 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-76e0c098f5

gparted-0.31.0-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2018-76e0c098f5

gparted-0.31.0-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.