Bug 480442

Summary:	liveusb-creator fails to launch from GNOME menu
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Joachim Frieben <jfrieben>
Component:	liveusb-creator	Assignee:	kushaldas@gmail.com <mail>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	chris.brown, lmacken, mail
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Description Joachim Frieben 2009-01-17 11:56:09 UTC

Description of problem:
When launched from GNOME menu "Applications > System Tools > liveusb-creator"
nothing happens. Only upon inspection of .xsession-errors. it becomes apparent that the former needs to be launched as root:

  "You must run this application as root"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
liveusb-creator-3.5-1.fc10.noarch

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click GNOME menu item "Applications > System Tools > liveusb-creator".
  
Actual results:
None.

Expected results:
liveusb-creator GUI is launched.

Additional info:
- related tool revisor prompts user for root password and then proceeds.
- it should be possible to run liveusb-creator as ordinary user which
  is the recommended operation mode e.g. of 'rpmbuild' anyway.

Comment 1 Christopher Brown 2009-02-01 00:55:41 UTC

It works for me on i686.  What happens when you launch from terminal?

Comment 2 Joachim Frieben 2009-02-01 10:58:23 UTC

When launched from the shell, then the user is graphically prompted for the root password. After entering it, the GUI of liveusb-creator comes up.

Comment 3 Joachim Frieben 2009-02-01 11:04:03 UTC

Hum, tried a second time, and now it returns:

  $ liveusb-creator 
  You must run this application as root

Strange indeed ..

Comment 4 Luke Macken 2009-02-09 17:02:46 UTC

I cannot reproduce this issue.  When I run the liveusb-creator from the menu, and from the command-line, it prompts me for the root password.

Comment 5 Joachim Frieben 2009-02-16 21:01:31 UTC

I have reinstalled F10 x86_64 from scratch [network method with active updates channel], and the behaviour ist just the same: "You must run this application as root" appears in .xsession-errors or in the shell respectively. The user only belongs to group "users" [GID 100].

Comment 6 Luke Macken 2009-03-09 01:27:42 UTC

Please try and reproduce this issue with v3.6+ of the liveusb-creator.  Thanks!

Comment 7 Joachim Frieben 2009-03-10 08:10:51 UTC

No change for liveusb-creator-3.6-1.fc10. However, I have nailed down the culprit which appears to be a cutomized PATH variable prepending /usr/sbin to $PATH:

  /usr/bin/liveusb-creator: OK
  /usr/sbin/liveusb-creator: "You must run this application as root"

I suppose this bug can hence be closed as "NOTABUG", can't it?