Bug 1299247 - Unetbootin displays a blank screen when run as root or with administrative privileges and fails to authenticate with the system.
Summary: Unetbootin displays a blank screen when run as root or with administrative pr...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: unetbootin
Version: 23
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Filipe Rosset
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-17 19:48 UTC by Ervin
Modified: 2016-12-20 17:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-12-20 17:57:58 UTC
Type: Bug
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
What Unetbootin displays. (11.02 KB, image/png)
2016-01-17 19:48 UTC, Ervin
no flags Details
Unetbootin's initial dialog. (11.20 KB, image/png)
2016-01-17 19:49 UTC, Ervin
no flags Details

Description Ervin 2016-01-17 19:48:22 UTC
Created attachment 1115654 [details]
What Unetbootin displays.

Description of problem:
When being run as root or sudo Unetbootin displays only a blank screen. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
613-1.fc23


How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install Unetbootin
2.Launch Unetbootin
3.View the dialog about Unetbootin needing to run in administrative priviledges
4.Close the Unetbootin Windows
5.Open a terminal and type either sudo /usr/bin/unetbootin or su --c '/usr/bin/unetbootin' to launch Unetbootin with administrative privileges. 


Actual results:
This is the message that comes in the terminal when using sudo: 
Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Resource id:  0x240000a
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Resource id:  0x240000a
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Resource id:  0x240000a
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Resource id:  0x240000a
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Resource id:  0x240000a

And the results when using the su command: 
Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 1 (X_ShmAttach)
  Resource id:  0x13c
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Resource id:  0x240000a
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Resource id:  0x240000a
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Resource id:  0x240000a
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 3 (X_ShmPutImage)
  Resource id:  0x240000a
Note: password is correct in both cases. 

Expected results:
Unetbootin should start normally, or even better, it should ask for authentication rather than display a dialog about commands to typed in the terminal. 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ervin 2016-01-17 19:49:11 UTC
Created attachment 1115655 [details]
Unetbootin's initial dialog.

Comment 2 yucef sourani 2016-08-30 12:17:21 UTC
this problem appears with fedora 24

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-10-20 16:18:42 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 5 Dimitri Papadopoulos 2016-11-28 19:36:16 UTC
Still there in Fedora 24.
Could someone bump the version please?

Comment 6 Dimitri Papadopoulos 2016-11-28 19:39:45 UTC
See upstream bug https://github.com/unetbootin/unetbootin/issues/56

This looks like a possible workaround for now:
sudo QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 unetbootin

Comment 7 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-12-10 18:23:00 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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