Debian Bug report logs - #805000
/usr/bin/gksudo: Started applications hang

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Ph. Marek" <philipp.marek@linbit.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: /usr/bin/gksudo: Started applications hang

Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:17:25 +0100

Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.2-9
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/gksudo

Related to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=599233, but 
that's a "wishlist" item, while this here is a bug.


gksudo not only swallows the stderr output, it even makes the program hang 
if there's too much (a pipe full, ie. 64kB) of output:


This here:

    # gksudo -- perl -e 'printf STDERR "%500.500s\n", "a" for 0 .. 100'

just gets eaten, but

    # gksudo -- perl -e 'printf STDERR "%500.500s\n", "a" for 0 .. 1000'

will hang indefinitely.

I could rescue my long-running program by emptying the pipe via 

    # sudo cat /proc/$PID_OF_SUDO_BELOW_GKSUDO/fd/2

but that's unacceptable.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  gconf-service             3.2.6-3
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.18.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-22
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.4-1
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6              2.6-2
ii  libgconf-2-4              3.2.6-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.32.1-1
ii  libgksu2-0                2.0.13~pre1-8+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.46.1-2
ii  libgnome-keyring0         3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.28-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0       1.38.1-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0         1.38.1-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  sudo                      1.8.12-1

Versions of packages gksu recommends:
ii  gnome-keyring  3.18.2-1

gksu suggests no packages.

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Cc: gksu@packages.debian.org

Subject: Bug#892768: Removed package(s) from unstable

Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:18:42 +0000

Version: 2.0.2-9+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package gksu has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/892768

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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