Debian Bullseye - Synaptic not starting in VNC session
by darkduck from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6M7W8)
I have a Debian machine that runs in mostly-headless mode. I connect to it via VNC, which runs on desktop :2.
It has been recently upgraded to Bullseye. Since the upgrade, I can only run Synaptic (synaptic-pkexec) on the computer itself. It starts fine with password prompt. It works from both the menu item and terminal.
When running in remote VNC session, the menu item does nothing, but I can see (and subsequently kill) the process for synaptic in ps -e list. Running synaptic-pkexec in terminal hangs the terminal until Ctrl-C is pressed, and again nothing happens.
Did anyone experience and fix the same?
PS. I plan to upgrade to Bookworm in the near future - will it self-fix there? If yes, I will just proceed with upgrade.
It has been recently upgraded to Bullseye. Since the upgrade, I can only run Synaptic (synaptic-pkexec) on the computer itself. It starts fine with password prompt. It works from both the menu item and terminal.
When running in remote VNC session, the menu item does nothing, but I can see (and subsequently kill) the process for synaptic in ps -e list. Running synaptic-pkexec in terminal hangs the terminal until Ctrl-C is pressed, and again nothing happens.
Did anyone experience and fix the same?
PS. I plan to upgrade to Bookworm in the near future - will it self-fix there? If yes, I will just proceed with upgrade.