Comment 0 for bug 557443

When running Checkbox on Kubuntu, the application seems to stall forever when attempting to gather information from the system. The reason is that the backend is started during this process which calls upon kdesudo. The backend_info plugin assumes that kdesudo can take environment variables as part of the option:

  kdesudo -- PATH=/foo command

However, it seems that kdesudo calls the argument with execv instead of the shell, so environment variables cannot be given this way.