Gparted won't accept root password??? [SOLVED!]

[wharfhouse]

Tried to activate GParted for the first time from within my installation (having used it often from a LiveCD prior to installation) as I wanted to partition a USB flash drive.  It asked for a password being an administrative task, fair enough but it won't accept my root password    Tried several times... checked my password out on other things like root terminal, synaptic etc., all OK.

Is there a seperate password it uses I don't know about or have I missed something?

Just in case you need to know I'm on the current (and last?) version of Zen with the current kernel 2.6.38.8.bfs

Any ideas?  Thanks.
 

[daniel]

Type in terminal
gparted
any messages?
Will not work...

EDIT: or try 

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su -c "gparted"

[Neal ManBear]

Zen/Gnome support forum ---     
http://linuxgator.org/gnome/forum/     

Probably good to ask there, too, in case this is zen specific.   

[ternor]

I would check ownership and permissions of the executable file.

[DeBaas]

I changed the menu-line to:

kdesu gparted

(gksu gparted tell's me it is the wrong password)

 

[Neal ManBear]

I changed the menu-line to

kdesu gparted

     
That's for kde. wharfhouse is using zen (gnome). Therefore, gksu gparted is needed.     

[DeBaas]

Neal you are right, but.....
had the same problem with it using gksu in PCLinuxOS Gnome (older version)
kdesu was available and worked.
So just a try ?

[wharfhouse]

Hi Guys & thanks for your comments and tips! 

Didn't expect it to be such a popular post!  I'll try out these things over the week-end and report back next week. 

So is this a common problem?

Cheers.

[pags]

Type in terminal
gparted
any messages?
Will not work...

EDIT: or try 

Code: [Select]

su -c "gparted"

...if that doesn't work (and it should), and you want a DE-agnostic approach, this two-step method should work...

From any graphic terminal (command line interface):

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su -c xterm

Supply the root password when requested, and another terminal will open.  From the resulting window, and graphic app should run with root privileges (gparted, gsmartcontrol, etc)

[wharfhouse]

Hi Guys... as promised the update.

EDIT: or try 

Code:
su -c "gparted"

Result:  asked for password (root password put in)... "invalid"!

I changed the menu-line to:

kdesu gparted

(gksu gparted tell's me it is the wrong password)

 

"assertion failed... aborted"!

That's for kde. wharfhouse is using zen (gnome). Therefore, gksu gparted is needed.     

Same effect!

That leaves pags suggestion.  I'll give it a go when I'm next on.  Incidentally, I found a neat alternative in PCC: "Manage Disk Partitions".  Seemed to do the same stuff so I partitioned and formatted my USB stick using that, which worked well.  So perhaps I don't need GParted at all although it doesn't answer the problem.  I'd like to pursue this in case it crops up somewhere else... not unless it's a bug with the programme.  So pags, I'll let you know by & by. 

[Neal ManBear]

Both gparted and diskdrake (Manage Disk Partitions) use the same backend.     

[wharfhouse]

Hi Leiche and Neal,

...if that doesn't work (and it should), and you want a DE-agnostic approach, this two-step method should work...

From any graphic terminal (command line interface):

Code:
su -c xterm

Supply the root password when requested, and another terminal will open.  From the resulting window, and graphic app should run with root privileges (gparted, gsmartcontrol, etc)

'Fraid not... still an invalid password!

I think rather than make a big deal of this, I'll use "diskdrake" whenever I need this facility, as Neal says these are one and the same thing (other than the graphical interface) which does work well enough 

So thanks for all your help on this one 

p.s.
Neal, any idea when Package Suggest is re-opening for business?

[Neal ManBear]

Neal, any idea when Package Suggest is re-opening for business?

     
It will open wen it opens. Best I can say.     

[wharfhouse]

Thanx Neal 

I'll mark this thread as closed now.

cheers!
 

[Just17]

You asked .......  yes it seems to be a common problem ..... at least it is reproducible here

gksu gparted     tells me my password is invalid
su -c "gparted"  tells me my password is invalid
su -c gparted     tells me my password is invalid

opening a terminal,  'su'-ing to root, then launching gparted works.

kdesu gparted   accepts the root password and launches