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When running applications such as "unetbootin" or "tuxboot", you might get a blank window, instead of the actual application. Even when running it through "gksudo", or having a decent polkit running (e.g. inside Gnome). E.g.: This is because these application use MIT_SHM (Shared memory), which for some reason does not work when running graphical applications as root, while being logged in as a regular user in X. The solution is to disable MIT_SHM. E.g.: $ sudo QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 tuxboot

I have been struggling a few days now to get the fantastic "backports" project up and running on my machine (Arch Linux). Here's what I had to do: First, make sure you have backport checkout out, and pulled in all the required trees: # git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/backports/backports.git # cd backports # ./devel/backports-update-manager  Here's what I found out: - Make sure your PYTHON_PATH does not contain funny stuff - devel/pycocci expects Python 2. Arch Linux defaults to Python 3. Use a virtualenv2, or change devel/pycocci's first line to "#!/usr/bin/env python2" - devel/pycocci crashes randomly when using different threads. I have hacked the script to make it single-threaded. EDIT: This seems to be because of Coccinelle 1.0.6. It does not occur using Cocinnele 1.0.4 - Coccinelle 1.0.6 does not work with all patches included in backports, you need version 1.0.4 with python support. (bin can be found here: ht