Bug 501133

Summary:	gparted cannot detect any drives
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Pierre Ossman <pierre-bugzilla>
Component:	gparted	Assignee:	Deji Akingunola <dakingun>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	dakingun
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Description Pierre Ossman 2009-05-16 21:01:28 UTC

When gparted is started using a normal user and setuid:ing to root (via consolehelper), it claims it cannot find any devices. It does however work fine if I use su for the setuid process, so there is something in the consolehelper system that confuses gparted.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 15:57:33 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Deji Akingunola 2009-10-20 20:30:21 UTC

I've somehow missed this for a long time, sorry. You shouldn't need to other 'setuid:ing to root' to run gparted. It is already (properly) configured to use consolehelper, just call 'gparted' (or start if from the desktop menu) to run the app.