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Bug 783932 - GParted won't launch on Fedora 25
GParted won't launch on Fedora 25
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 776437
Product: gparted
Classification: Other
Component: application
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gparted maintainers alias
gparted maintainers alias
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-06-18 19:01 UTC by tm94x
Modified: 2017-06-19 07:50 UTC
See Also:
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Description tm94x 2017-06-18 19:01:23 UTC 
Everytime I try to start GParted it simply refuses to run. It worked on Fedora 24 but ever since I upgraded to Fedroa 25 it won't launch.
Comment 1 Mike Fleetwood 2017-06-19 07:50:05 UTC 
Thanks for taking the time to report this.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

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This is documented as a known issue with Fedora 25 & 26:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs#wayland-root-apps
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F26_bugs#wayland-root-apps

By design Wayland does not allow processes run as a different user to
display on the desktop.  Therefore using "su" or "sudo" to display a
graphical application will not work.

Simple workaround is to run "xhost +SI:localuser:root" in a terminal
before running GParted.

This is also documented in the GParted forun here:
  [SOLVED] How to run GParted on a GNOME on Wayland desktop
  http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17446

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 776437 ***