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Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 863

authentication problems off either menu

We were doing final testing of a point release this morning, and ran across a curious problem. Two script-based applications that use a terminal and need root access (but with different methods: su -c and pkexec) fail with an error message of "Failed to execure child process (file or directory not found" when a menu entry is used; this does not happen from a terminal or from our MX Tools dashboard. After an hour or more of 4 devs tracking, the only solution we could find was to comment out the TerminalEmulator=xfce4-terminal line in ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc

This did not happen qith 4.10, and if we roll back the 4.12 upgrade those menu entries function again wtih the default helpers.rc (where Xfce terminal is specified). Does this make sense to anyone? Can anyone confirm this behavior?

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,494

Re: authentication problems off either menu

Have a look at this thread. I believe you are experiencing this issue (it has been fixed in the git tree). There is an easy manual fix.

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Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 863

Re: authentication problems off either menu

Excellent, thanks!

(Now uploading rc2)

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MX-23 (based on Debian Stable) with our flagship Xfce 4.18.