gksu causes wireshark to hang

Bug #247728 reported by Forest
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gksu

Starting with Hardy, running Wireshark using gksu (or su-to-root or the Network menu) results in Wireshark hanging when it tries to close the Capture -> Interfaces dialog. In other words, every time I click Start or Close on that dialog, the application freezes up.

This does not happen when running Wireshark using sudo.
This did not occur on Gutsy.

wireshark 1.0.0-1
gksu 2.0.0-5ubuntu3

Related:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wireshark/+bug/198884
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=486375
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478169

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Connor Imes (ckimes) wrote :

Marked as a duplicate of bug #198884

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