Bug#728363: Subject: kde-full: Starting synaptic in kde asks for root password when sudo installed and used.
Package: kde-full
Version: 5:77+deb7u1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
On a clean install (hard disk has had its partitions changed) I installed
among others the base system, sudo, xorg, kde-full and synaptic.
Because I installed and sudo, my machine does NOT have a ROOT password.
Trying to start synaptic from the KDE menu results in a message box stating:
1. "The action you requested needs root priviliges", which is correct.
2. "Please enter the root's password ..." which is incorrect when sudo is
used. There is no root's password and entering the current user's password
results in an invalid password error.
The bottom line is that I cannot start synaptic from KDE.
Trying to start synaptic from a shell results in error:
(synaptic:3668): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages kde-full depends on:
ii kde-plasma-desktop 5:77+deb7u1
ii kde-plasma-netbook 5:77+deb7u1
ii kdeadmin 4:4.8.4-3
ii kdeartwork 4:4.8.4-5
ii kdeedu 4:4.8.4+5.77+deb7u1
ii kdegames 4:4.8.4-3
ii kdegraphics 4:4.8.4+5.77+deb7u1
ii kdemultimedia 4:4.8.4-2
ii kdenetwork 4:4.8.4-1
ii kdepim 4:4.4.11.1+l10n-3
ii kdeplasma-addons 4:4.8.4-1
ii kdeutils 4:4.8.4+5.77+deb7u1
Versions of packages kde-full recommends:
ii kde-standard 5:77+deb7u1
ii kdeaccessibility 4:4.8.4+5.77+deb7u1
ii kdesdk 4:4.8.4+dfsg-1
ii kdetoys 4:4.8.4-1
ii kdewebdev 4:4.8.4-1
Versions of packages kde-full suggests:
pn calligra <none>
pn kde-l10n <none>
ii xorg 1:7.7+3~deb7u1
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