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Build Identifier: M20110210-1200 If you run the org.eclipse.linuxtools.oprofile.core*/natives/linux/scripts/install.sh, it will create a link from /usr/bin/consolehelper to ./oprofile. When you actually run OProfile from inside of eclipse, it invokes consolehelper to get authentication from running opcontrol as root, but if, on RHEL/Fedora etc., usermode-gtk, which contains /usr/bin/consolehelper-gtk, is not installed, you won't get the graphical authentication dialog to pop up. So install.sh should check for the presence of /usr/bin/consolehelper-gtk, I think. Is there a KDE variant too? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Don't install or uninstall usermode-gtk 2. Run org.eclipse.linuxtools.oprofile.core*/natives/linux/scripts/install.sh, and notice that it succeeds. 3. Run eclipse and do an OProfile run, and notice that you get no authentication GUI pop up.
FYI, consolehelper is a "solution" for privilege escalation that we're going to move away from. PolicytKit is where we should be heading: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit I'm surprised I didn't see a bug for this so I created one: 342896: Move to PolicyKit for authorization https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=342896
Created attachment 193316 [details] require /usr/bin/consolehelper-gtk is installed in install.sh Until someone does an implementation using PolicyKit, you can use this patch to work around the problem.
Fixed with commit eaac9c6896fe8f3c612a1bd7d27001261ba8512c. Thanks!
Un-setting iplog+ on the bug (it should be set on the attachment).
