Re: [Gnewsense-dev] su-to-root problem (synaptic, etc)

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:13:05PM +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Robert Millan schreef:
>> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:04:25PM +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
>>> Was the dist-upgrade supposed to install something relevant to this?  
>>> Because all I got were packages regarding the archive keyring, color  
>>> management and xulrunner (-dbg version of the latter for some 
>>> reason).
>>
>> Yeah, gnewsense-artwork 41gnewsense18.2
>>
>
> Ah, right, I got that one too. But as I said, it doesn't seem to work. I  
> also tried gksudo and su-to-root from a terminal, but the result is the  
> same.

What does "gconftool-2 --get /apps/gksu/sudo-mode" print?

Does sudo work when used in command-line?

Does "gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic" work from command-line?

If not, does it work when issued multiple times?

-- 
Robert Millan

  The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
  how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
  still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."