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[SOLVED] Gparted help

Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 16:30
by Jack
It won't run or work in the menu only in terminal.

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root@porteus:/home/guest/Downloads# gparted
======================
libparted : 3.2
======================
Failed to execute child process “mkudffs” (No such file or directory)
root@porteus:/home/guest/Downloads#
What is wrong or how can I fix it.

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Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 18:50
by Blaze
Jack, do you install udftools (I mean udftools-1.0.0b3-x86_64-2_slonly.txz)?

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Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 19:01
by francois
Google
Failed to execute child process “mkudffs” (No such file or directory)

https://fossies.org/linux/gparted/ChangeLog
908 When udftools are not installed and the mkudffs program isn't found
909 GParted would report this error during startup:
910
911 # ./gpartedbin
912 ======================
913 libparted : 3.1
914 ======================
915 Failed to execute child process "mkudffs" (No such file or directory)

Try:

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root@porteus:~# usm -g udftools

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Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 19:40
by Jack
That fixed the problem in terminal but when I try this Applications/System Tools/GParted it ask for password but dose not start.

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Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 21:30
by beny
hi jack, have you gtkmm installed..

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Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 21:57
by Jack
I have these installed.

1 gparted-0.29.0-x86_64-1.xzm
2 gtkmm2-2.24.5-x86_64-1.xzm
3 udftools-1.0.0b3-x86_64-3_slonly.xzm

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Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 22:55
by francois
Go to /usr/share/applications and try to find the gparted.desktop file. Open it with leafpad or another text file utility. What do you see after exec= ?

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Posted: 12 Nov 2017, 23:06
by Jack
francois wrote:
12 Nov 2017, 22:55
Go to /usr/share/applications and try to find the gparted.desktop file. Open it with leafpad or another text file utility. What do you see after exec= ?
This is what I found exec=.

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Exec=/usr/sbin/gparted_polkit %f

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Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 00:29
by francois
Remove the %f at the end. And try it.

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Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 00:45
by Jack
Still no good it didn't work.

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Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 03:02
by ncmprhnsbl
do you have:
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.slackware.pkexec.gparted.policy ?
should be part of the slackware package.

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Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 03:08
by Jack
ncmprhnsbl wrote:
13 Nov 2017, 03:02
do you have:
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.slackware.pkexec.gparted.policy ?
should be part of the slackware package.
Yes It where you said.

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Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 04:11
by francois
Exec=gksu /usr/sbin/gparted_polkit
or
Exec=gksu gparted

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Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 04:39
by Ed_P
On my Cinnamon desktop the GParted app is:

/usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop

Exec=gksu gparted

Where did you get GParted from Jack? USM should have the correct app with the module, plus all the required modules.

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Posted: 13 Nov 2017, 14:07
by Jack
Ed_P wrote:
13 Nov 2017, 04:39
On my Cinnamon desktop the GParted app is:

/usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop

Exec=gksu gparted

Where did you get GParted from Jack? USM should have the correct app with the module, plus all the required modules.
I download it from Slackware and wget to get it