[Bug 755837] New: Gparted and KDE-partitionmanager cannot format partitions
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c0 Summary: Gparted and KDE-partitionmanager cannot format partitions Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: EagleScreen@gmail.com QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 Gparted and KDE-partitionmanager can only make unformatted or hfs partitions, they can't format partitions as ext2, ext3, vfat, ntfs... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install gparted or partitionmanager. 2.Try to create an ext2 or a vfat filesystem. 3.You only can select "unformatted" or "hfs" as available options. Actual Results: You only can select "unformatted" or "hfs" as available options. Expected Results: The rest of supported formats like ext2, ext3, ext4, vfat and ntfs should be available too. I am using OpenSUSE 12.1 with LXDE. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c1 kk zhang <kkzhang@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kkzhang@novell.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |nld10-bugs-qa@forge.provo.n |ovo.novell.com |ovell.com --- Comment #1 from kk zhang <kkzhang@novell.com> 2012-04-09 02:26:09 UTC --- Hi,could you please have a look at this?I am not sure whether it is right to assign it to you.Feel free to reassign it.Thank you. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kde-maintainers@suse.de AssignedTo|nld10-bugs-qa@forge.provo.n |bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo. |ovell.com |novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c2 Rafael Belmonte <EagleScreen@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Basesystem |Basesystem Version|Final |RC 1 AssignedTo|bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo. |bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |novell.com |ovo.novell.com Product|openSUSE 12.1 |openSUSE 12.2 --- Comment #2 from Rafael Belmonte <EagleScreen@gmail.com> 2012-07-21 13:51:33 UTC --- This bug is still present in OpenSUSE 12.2 RC1. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |kde-maintainers@suse.de |ovo.novell.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c3 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |massing@simula.no --- Comment #3 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-07-22 16:53:34 UTC --- *** Bug 720213 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=720213 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c4 Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dimstar@opensuse.org --- Comment #4 from Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org> 2012-07-22 17:03:57 UTC --- This bug is not directly gparted, but rather the various 'sudo' implementations. # su - # gparted => gparted can access the menu to format all kind of file systems # gnomesu gparted (which is used by xdg-su in a gnome sessioon) => gparted can only create unformatted and hfs partitions The formatting tools can be found in /usr/sbin, which is not in $PATH for normal users. gnomesu passed the normal env. to the called (no path extension). su - changes the environment to be 'clean root', incl. the new path variables. HFS can be formatted, as hformat is located in /usr/bin -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c5 --- Comment #5 from Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@gmail.com> 2013-02-23 14:34:00 UTC --- It seems to work properly when executed from the terminal with pkexec instead of gnomesu, with a proper policy file along the lines of: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.policy ============================================================================ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN" "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd"> <policyconfig> <action id="org.freedesktop.policykit.pkexec.run-gparted"> <description>Run GParted</description> <message>Authentication is required to run GParted</message> <defaults> <allow_any>no</allow_any> <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active> </defaults> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/sbin/gparted</annotate> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">TRUE</annotate> </action> </policyconfig> -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c6 --- Comment #6 from Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@gmail.com> 2013-02-23 15:08:24 UTC --- Working on a fix at [1]. [1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=gparted&project=home%3Abadshah400%3Abranches%3AGNOME%3AApps -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c7 --- Comment #7 from Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@gmail.com> 2013-02-24 04:36:56 UTC --- For gparted, I switched it to using pkexec instead of xdg-su and this seems to make it work with all filesystems (on my tests) [1]. I would be happy if someone (else) tested the package from the obs branch I mentioned in comment 6 above (packages should be published at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/badshah400:/branches:/GNOME:... soon). [1] Please note that, if you are using GNOME 3.6.3, the polkit authorisation dialog (and other modal dialogs) in gnome-shell have a bug, which might hit you when you try this, where it autocompletes the password entry with a blank password sometimes (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692937); using the mouse click instead of hitting the enter key on the keyboard to launch the application from the applications overview makes the authorisation dialog work fine. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c8 --- Comment #8 from Bernhard Wiedemann <bwiedemann@suse.com> 2013-02-25 22:00:08 CET --- This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration: This bug (755837) was mentioned in https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/156363 Factory / gparted -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c9 --- Comment #9 from Rafael Belmonte <EagleScreen@gmail.com> 2013-02-25 21:30:01 UTC --- Hello, note that https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/156363 does not completely fix this bug because it also needs to be fixed in KDE Partitionmanager. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c10 --- Comment #10 from Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@gmail.com> 2013-02-25 21:53:22 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9)
Hello, note that https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/156363 does not completely fix this bug because it also needs to be fixed in KDE Partitionmanager. Thanks.
Sorry, but I don't find partitionmanager in any of the official repos; there is a version at KDE:Extra but that has not seen any commits in the last 28 months. I looked at the app nonetheless, and because it implements the authorisation quite differently from gparted, I cannot find a similar way of fixing the problem for partitionmanager. I would be happy if some one else looked at it; however, because it seems to me this package is largely unmaintained by upstream, and unsupported by openSUSE (KDE:Extra, last commit 28 months ago), I am not very hopeful of it being fixed. This is just my view (and I would only be happy if this were proven wrong). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c11 Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tittiatcoke@gmail.com --- Comment #11 from Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke@gmail.com> 2013-02-25 22:39:19 UTC --- @Atri, kde-partitionmanager is indeed abandoned upstream. The last release was version 1.0.3 and is from 2010. So maybe it would be time to delete the package or to keep it as it is. Of course if somebody comes to support it, that person is more than welcome. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c12 --- Comment #12 from Rafael Belmonte <EagleScreen@gmail.com> 2013-02-26 08:18:41 UTC --- Thanks for the information, I will contact KDE Team if needed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c13 --- Comment #13 from Atri Bhattacharya <badshah400@gmail.com> 2013-02-26 23:30:25 UTC --- With gparted fixed in factory, and everyone aboard with the status of partitionmanager as being unmaintained, I think this is fixed. Unfortunately I am not sure if this, rather visible change, should be pushed out as a maintenance update for 12.2 as well? Opinions please? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755837#c14 Rafael Belmonte <EagleScreen@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #14 from Rafael Belmonte <EagleScreen@gmail.com> 2013-11-04 17:07:24 UTC --- Gparted seems to be fixed in openSUSE 13.1 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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