Bug 767245

Summary:	Suse Studio ImageWriter fails to start
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2	Reporter:	Juergen Weigert <jw>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	cschum, martin.schlander
Version:	Factory
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Bug Blocks:	357354

Description Juergen Weigert 2012-06-15 10:28:38 UTC

http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Live_USB_stick#Write_ISO_to_USB_2

explains how to use imagewriter to make a bootable usb stick.

I have installed imagewriter-1.9 from Factory, and it shows up in 
my XFCE Start menue under 
 -> System -> SUSE Studio Imagewriter

Clicking on this entry has no effect.

Trying to start imagewriter from a command shell reports:

 You must run this program as the root user.
 Aborted

The web page assumes that imagewriter would prompt for the root password itself.
This is needed so that it can work from the menue.

Comment 1 Matt Barringer 2012-06-19 06:15:50 UTC

Under KDE and GNOME it uses kdesu to get root privs, but I hadn't tested under XFCE.  I'll see if they have their own recommended way to handle the su, but in the long term, fixing bnc#715249 would fix this problem as well.

Comment 2 Martin Schlander 2012-09-11 17:12:17 UTC

Imagewriter also fails to start from KDE Kickoff launch menu. I get the kdesu root password prompt, but after that nothing happens.

Manually running 'xdg-su -c "imagewriter %F"' (which is the command in the imagewriter .desktop file) in Konsole works just fine.

Manually running 'kdesu imagewriter' works too.

Comment 3 Matt Barringer 2012-11-14 15:06:27 UTC

I think I've finally fixed this, in version 1.10.  Using xdg-su and removing certain fields from the .desktop file seemed to do the trick.

When you get a chance, could you try it out?  The latest packages are in the SUSE:SUSEStudio repository:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/SUSE:/SUSEStudio/

Comment 5 Fei Xiang Zhang 2013-04-15 07:10:07 UTC

this bug seemed has been fixed.
if any questions,feel free to reopen it.