Bug 364889 - KDE Partition Manager 1.2.1 doesn't ask for root privileges on KDE Neon 5.6.5
Summary: KDE Partition Manager 1.2.1 doesn't ask for root privileges on KDE Neon 5.6.5
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: neon
Classification: KDE Neon
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR grave
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Neon Bugs
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Reported: 2016-06-29 06:52 UTC by KDE Neon user
Modified: 2016-07-11 02:59 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description KDE Neon user 2016-06-29 06:52:15 UTC 
I installed partitionmanager  1.2.1 from the official repositories on KDE Neon 5.6.5.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plugged an USB drive
2. Made partition changes
3. Pressed apply

Actual Results:  
It gives an error if I try to apply since I'm not running as root. I don't even get the "unmount" option in the context menu.

Expected Results:  
This program should always ask for root privileges for the partition manipulation to work.
Comment 1 Jonathan Riddell 2016-07-05 15:16:27 UTC 
Probably because kdesu doesn't work in Neon, assigning to Neon

Newer versions of Partition Manager might work without it?
Comment 2 Andrius Štikonas 2016-07-05 15:20:42 UTC 
It looks like this is caused by a combination of 2 things:

kf5 based kdesu is not in $PATH
kde partition manager in neon is too old (only 2.0.1 and later can find kdesu in libexec folder)
Comment 3 KDE Neon user 2016-07-11 02:59:49 UTC 
Closing this since Partition Manager has been updated to version 2.2.1 automatically.