On Thursday 21 May 2015 07:11:00 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 06:22:37AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; First problem solved. I had already done that and forgotten it. Can I blame it on oldtimers since I'm 80yo? ;-)
New version installed, a couple sessions with chmod, an edit of /var/lib/amanda/.amandahosts & everything is happy. > > Apt is supposed to work with packages by their names, so it tries to > purge a package that's literally called > 'amanda-common_1%3a3.3.1-4_i386.deb'. And fails, since the actual > package is called 'amanda-common'. That also failed, because I had already done that 2-3 days ago. > > I am currently "ssh -Y" into that box, and one of the display > > managers or X is refusing to forward the graphics for an application > > that must run as root, and the usual fixes are NOT working. > > 'apt-get install xauth' on target host solves it for me usually. > > > So, how do I fix this: > > gene@shop:/var/cache/apt/archives$ sudo synaptic > > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > > > > (synaptic:14317): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > localhost:11.0 > > > > graphical applications that do not run as root, work fine. > > > > Thanks for any help on this latter problem. > > 'sudo -E synaptic' should do the trick. Although it seems unnessessary > to run synaptic as root as it should rely on PolicyKit to escalate > privileges to root if it needs so. > > Reco In my experience, synaptic has not done that. However the -E option (that I wasn't ever aware of) does let it run, thanks. So this would appear to solve that if indeed policykit works. Thank you. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201505211113.52843.ghesk...@wdtv.com
