Unable to open prefences menu (GNU/Linux) about bleachbit

[theatre-x]

Yep, confirmed that this effects BB 1.7 Beta with Trisquel 6 Mini.

[az0]

Shouldn't the root user have permissions to wipe /? When I wipe the root directory as the root user, it wipes. When I wipe the root directory as a normal user, I get error 13.

After I do this and start as a normal user, I can open the preferences.

In the configuration file (~/.config/bleachbit/bleachbit.ini) is a section that records the shredding path, and mine looks like this:

[list/shred_drives]
0 = /

There is one path defined, and it is the root directory. Does yours look like this?

[theatre-x]

I thought that was a bit strange.
I used the "Bleachbit as Administrator" option in the Gnome/Cinnamon menus.

I will have to check back on the affected machines tomorrow for I am not physically near them right now.
I will also do a desktop recording of the problem.
I recently upgraded one of the machines to 1.8 but the Trisquel one still uses 1.6.
I'll try with both.

[theatre-x]

That's strange.
I don't seem to have the config file that you speak of.

Here is the error 13 that I get:

[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmpFroprYYw0W_HWgERI5jY821YChxFKkyhSn.TbVNr0hYcLnFzlF-h4aEf4.ecg6U9BMsswOv7J_pY-W_CtWD0.0LVpCTEiH3YJ8g42zA3-7ASZIo0QS-sXzYohxs--gRMCOG-b.A__VQvDNqhkl76Ths19Z7BR-CCXV1-Bok.SwcLEmBMZV7DraqLgvZmv9Li.mKnuB.60ZWIutqa-GV-J51KLm-sqXp7tw94-4tFKPuP6qDXNcgPEPcQi2d'

This is also when I used BleachBit 1.6 as Admin and I have video showing the issue still occurs in 1.8.
I will upload the vid to YouTube ASAP.

[az0]

I don't seem to have the config file that you speak of.

Weird. When you start BleachBit, click Help - System Information, and look for a line like this

options_dir = /home/username/.config/bleachbit

This line should give you the directory that holds bleachbit.ini

To be clear, after getting the same error 13 as a non-root user, I was able to open the preferences

1. Start BleachBit as non-root user
2. Set wipe path to /
3. Check System - Wipe Free Disk Space
4. Delete button
5. See the error 13
6. Open the Preferences menu (it works)
7. Close BleachBit

[0x647262]

I am also unable to reproduce this issue using @az0's steps above. Root should have permissions to delete anything on the system.

See this article.

[az0]

This bug seems not reproducible, so I am closing it. If it comes up, feel free to reopen this bug ticket or open a new one.