On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 05:08:01 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > I'm running debain sarge on my laptop. After I got out of hispital, I
> > ran upgrate/upgrade, but did not pay any attention to what was being
> > upgraded.
> >
> > Now when I try to run "sudo synaptic:, I keep getting this error;
> >
> > sudo synaptic
> >
> > (synaptic:22313): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> >
> > I've even tried ssh'ing into this laptop, yet I get this same error
> > message.
> >
>
> It's because in Sarge sudo was updated to version 1.6.8p7-1.3 and that
> put restrictions on environment variables.
>
> You now have to add into your sudoers:
>
> Defaults env_reset, env_keep+="DISPLAY"
>
> and then sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic will work again.
>
> H
>
Thank you very much. With the above added, it now functions again. :-)
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