Bug 132871 – gnome-extra/gnome-system-monitor-2.14.1 needs libgksu-1.3.1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Mathias Hasselmann 2006-05-10 02:05:51 UTC]

Nice that you finally removed the global package mask. So I can help testing.

Well, merging gnome-system-monitor-2.14.1 fails because of some missing
reference to gksu_context_try_need_password. Therefore some dependency on
x11-libs/libgsu-1.3.1 (and x11-libs/x11-libs/libgsuui-1.0) should be added to
the ebuild of gnome-system-monitor.

As libgsu-1.9.2 also doesn't provide this function, it should be checked if
that packages >=libgsu-1.9 have to be blocked/avoided by the dependency list
of gnome-system-monitor.

[Comment 1 Mathias Hasselmann 2006-05-10 02:06:48 UTC]

Created attachment 86531 [details, diff]
Patch for gnome-system-monitor-2.14.1.ebuild

My attempt to fix the issue. Don't know if I got the gksu-1.9 issue right.

[Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2006-05-10 09:50:29 UTC]

No, I think we want to disable gksu support in gnome-system-monitor.  It falls back to gnomesu, which is what we want anyway.  Just unmerge gksu, and re-emerge gnome-system-monitor, as a workaround.

[Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp 2006-10-11 20:26:15 UTC]

gnome-system-monitor-2.16.x seems to dynamically select which to use - gksu or gnomesu via means of dlopen (through GModule). It prefers gksu if libgksu2.so is present, falling back to gnomesu if libgnomesu.so.0 is present and probably failing to do stuff that needs root access if none are present.

[Comment 4 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2007-06-16 09:18:08 UTC]

I cant seem to find how gksu/gnomesu is needed here. It least I couldn't find a clue with 2.18.x and there is no dep on it in 2.14.4 ebuild.

[Comment 5 Xake 2007-08-06 11:14:50 UTC]

Old bug. Still valid? the version of libgksu mentioned here is not even in portage any longer.

[Comment 6 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-08-11 02:48:39 UTC]

Nor the verison of gnome-system-monitor.