I have the same problem. After the 180+ upgrades, all use of gksu from the menus stopped working. After indicating that an administrative application is being started, nothing happens. A system monitor check shows that another instance of gksu has been started but is sleeping with 0.0% processor use.
Running the 'gksu' command from a user terminal pops the dialog, but nothing happens and the command has to be aborted to get the prompt back. It makes no difference if the advance options are selected or not. Running 'gksu synaptic' from a terminal gives the same non result My work around has been to 'sudo -s' in a terminal and run the programs from there. I may elect to try the downgrade of gksu as it is not a problem for me. If it 'goes south', I'll just dump and rebuild. I'm running this particular instance (I have 3) of Ubuntu in a a VMWareFusion virtual machine on my iMAC. Here are some of my environmentals: 512MB ram, dual-processor, 20GB virtual disk as presented via VMWareFusion Version 1.0 (51348) Hardy Heron: xsession-errors: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_CA. Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default. SESSION_MANAGER=local/aarc01vu:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5319 ** Message: another SSH agent is running at: /tmp/ssh-TKjRcT5319/agent.5319 ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0 ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0 Shutdown failed or nothing to shut down. xrdb: "*Label.background" on line 220 overrides entry on line 150 xrdb: "*Text.background" on line 226 overrides entry on line 191 xrdb: "*Label.foreground" on line 232 overrides entry on line 151 xrdb: "*Text.foreground" on line 238 overrides entry on line 192 Checking for Xgl: ** (x-session-manager:5319): WARNING **: Host name lookup failure on localhost. not present. No whitelisted driver found aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /home/richardc/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file '/home/richardc/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms': No such file or directory Tracker version 0.6.6 Copyright (c) 2005-2007 by Jamie McCracken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) This program is free software and comes without any warranty. It is licensed under version 2 or later of the General Public License which can be viewed at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt Initialising tracker... Could not set idle IO priority...attempting best effort 7 priority Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension Initializing nautilus-share extension 11 Initializing nautilus-image-converter extension seahorse nautilus module initialized starting HAL detection for ac adaptors...found /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer_power_supply_ac_adapter_ACAD ** (nautilus:5509): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported Throttle level is 5 (gnome-panel:5507): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -1 and height 34 evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Setting timeout for 33520 1212624000 1212590480 evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Wed Jun 4 17:00:00 2008 evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Wed Jun 4 07:41:20 2008 PID TTY TIME CMD 5472 ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio seahorse nautilus module shutdown Shutting down nautilus-image-converter extension Shutting down nautilus-open-terminal extension Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension Initializing nautilus-share extension Initializing nautilus-image-converter extension seahorse nautilus module initialized ** (nautilus:6361): WARNING **: Unable to add monitor: Not supported ** (gnome-control-center:7361): WARNING **: error raised: [libslab_get_gconf_value: error getting /desktop/gnome/applications/main-menu/lock-down/user_modifiable_apps] ** (gnome-control-center:7361): WARNING **: error raised: [load_xbel_store: couldn't load bookmark file [NULL] ] ** (gnome-control-center:7361): WARNING **: key not found [/apps/control-center/cc_actions_list] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- gksu does not work properly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/236525 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
