On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:44:04PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I recently upgraded to Sid, and I cannot run root commands as a > regular user. When I try to run Synaptic, I get the following message > after entering the root password: > "Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root: > Failed to communicate with gksu-run-helper.
I don't use Synaptic and I don't use Gnome at home, but two things spring to mind: 1. gksu-run-helper is in the libgksu1.2-0 package. Is that installed on your system? 2. Are you in the /etc/sudoers file? If not, log in as root and run the visudo command. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [NL] Work | http://zestsoftware.nl/ "All the darkness that we choose, lay it down, it can't be used. Burn it in the fire." --- Neal Morse
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