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Installer: gparted not starting #204

Closed ylluminate closed 3 years ago

ylluminate commented 3 years ago

Attempting install of GeckoLinux_ROLLING-OBS_Pantheon.x86_64-999.210221.0.iso.

After some attempts at trying to resolve the partitioning situation (it was previously partitioned by OpenSUSE TumbleWeed current release with the GPT EFI/EPS volume + an LVM for the remainder of the drive and the GeckoLinux calamares did not recognize it and wanted to do a manual partition, which I also was having trouble with and decided to run GPartEd), I discovered that gparted will neither start from the GUI nor from Terminal. When attempting to launch via Terminal I get:

linux@localhost:~> gparted
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

(gpartedbin9764): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:39:02.850: cannot open display: :0
ylluminate commented 3 years ago

By the way: Since this is based on OpenSUSE, why not use the more robust installer that they use? It certainly is far more well developed than Calamares...

geckolinux commented 3 years ago

Hi there, you need to run gparted as root. What version of GeckoLinux are you using?

The openSUSE installer doesn't work for installing live systems for a compressed image.

ylluminate commented 3 years ago

Hi, I was using the installer at the time I executed this and I did run it as sudo gparted as well with the same result... As noted in the first message, this is the installer I was running: GeckoLinux_ROLLING-OBS_Pantheon.x86_64-999.210221.0.iso

geckolinux commented 3 years ago

sudo does not work for launching graphical applications in openSUSE. Please either do su root first, or use the graphical menu launcher.