[SOLVED] Gparted help

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[SOLVED] Gparted help

Post#1 by Jack » 12 Nov 2017, 16:30

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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Post#2 by Blaze » 12 Nov 2017, 18:50

Jack, do you install udftools (I mean udftools-1.0.0b3-x86_64-2_slonly.txz)?
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Post#3 by francois » 12 Nov 2017, 19:01

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)

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root@porteus:~# usm -g udftools
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Post#4 by Jack » 12 Nov 2017, 19:40

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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Post#5 by beny » 12 Nov 2017, 21:30

hi jack, have you gtkmm installed..

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Post#6 by Jack » 12 Nov 2017, 21:57

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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Post#7 by francois » 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= ?
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Post#8 by Jack » 12 Nov 2017, 23:06

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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Post#9 by francois » 13 Nov 2017, 00:29

Remove the %f at the end. And try it.
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Post#10 by Jack » 13 Nov 2017, 00:45

Still no good it didn't work.
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Post#11 by ncmprhnsbl » 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.
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Post#12 by Jack » 13 Nov 2017, 03:08

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.
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Post#13 by francois » 13 Nov 2017, 04:11

Exec=gksu /usr/sbin/gparted_polkit
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Exec=gksu gparted
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Post#14 by Ed_P » 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.
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Post#15 by Jack » 13 Nov 2017, 14:07

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
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