My bug was marked as a dupe of this bug. (Bug 69145) I had a similar issue. No admin group. I apt-get dist-upgrade'd from dapper.
After creating the admin group and adding myself, I still get the same issue as mentioned in my bug. Starting the services admin app gives an error: The configuration could not be loaded You are not allowed to access the system configuration. -- Admin tools require admin group membership https://launchpad.net/bugs/59946 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs