desktop file for gparted uses pkexec when the polkit use flag is set. the problem is that pkexec cleans the environment before running the app so the DISPLAY variable isn't set and then it isn't possible to run the app if it is a X application (like the gparted case) The solution would be to use only gksu or kdesu Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="polkit" emerge gparted 2. try to run from the desktop menu 3. try to run from the command line Actual Results: $ pkexec /usr/sbin/gparted %f (gpartedbin:23458): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Expected Results: gparted should open $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.11.38 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.16.0, 3.7.1-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.7.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3820_CPU_@_3.60GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 13:30:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p42 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.3-r3, 3.2.3-r2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.10.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.27.1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6-r1, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.7 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.16.0 Repositories: gentoo multimedia steam-overlay java-overlay r3pek ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=corei7-avx -O3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.0/conf" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="${EPREFIX}/etc/gconf /etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=corei7-avx -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/multimedia /var/lib/layman/steam-overlay /var/lib/layman/java-overlay /home/r3pek/projects/portage-overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aacplus aacs acl acpi alsa amd64 amr apng autoipd avahi avx bash-completion bazaar berkdb bidi bluetooth bluray branding btrfs bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cg cli collada colord connection-sharing consolekit cracklib crypt cuda cups curl cvs cxx cycles dbus demosaic devhelp dhcp dirac dmraid dri dts dv dvb dvd eap-tls egl exif extensions fat fax ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig fortran fuse g3dvl gconf gd gdbm gdu geoip gflags gimp git glade gles gles1 gles2 gphoto2 gpm grc gsm gssapi gstreamer gtk gtk3 gtkhotkey gudev hddtemp hires-icons hpijs http hvm hwdb iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick intel_led introspection ipv6 java jpeg jpeg2k keymap lame lcms led libass libcanberra libnotify lua lua-cairo lua-imlib mad madwifi matroska mdadm mdnsresponder-compat mercurial minizip mms mmx mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib nat-pmp ncat ncurses ndiff network networkmanager new-login nfs nfsv3 nfsv4 nfsv41 nls nmap-update nping nptl nsplugin ntfs ntfsprogs nvidia odf ogg opencl opengl openmp openrc openssl osmesa pam pbins pcap pcre pdf pdfimport perl phyp pic player plugins png policykit portage postproc postscript pppd pulseaudio pygrub python qemu quicktime raw readline realtime redcode reiser4 reiserfs resolvconf roe rtmp samba sasl scanner schroedinger script sdl session skins slideshow slp smp sna sndfile snmp spice sqlite sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssh ssl ssse3 subversion svg tcpd theora threads thunar tiff tk truetype tweak-mode udev udisks uml unicode upnp urandom usb v4l vaapi vcd vdpau video vim vim-syntax virt-network virtualbox visibility vorbis vpx wavelet wavpack weather-metar webkit webkit2 wmf wps x264 xa xcomposite xen xinerama xml xmp xosd xpm xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="*" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_2" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="*" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
+*gparted-0.14.1 (13 Jan 2013) + + 13 Jan 2013; Pacho Ramos <pacho@gentoo.org> +files/gparted-pkexec, + +files/org.gentoo.pkexec.gparted.policy, +gparted-0.14.1.ebuild, + -gparted-0.11.0.ebuild, -gparted-0.13.1.ebuild: + Version bump, fix pkexec usage to make it work (#450544 by Carlos Silva), + remove old. +
