Re: synaptic will not display after upgrade

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> I'm running debain sarge on my laptop. After I got out of hispital, I 
> ran upgrate/upgrade, but did not pay any attention to what was being 
> upgraded.
>
> Now when I try to run "sudo synaptic:, I keep getting this error;
>
> sudo synaptic
>
> (synaptic:22313): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> I've even tried ssh'ing into this laptop, yet I get this same error 
> message.

It's because in Sarge sudo was updated to version 1.6.8p7-1.3 and that 
put restrictions on environment variables.

You now have to add into your sudoers:

Defaults env_reset, env_keep+="DISPLAY"

and then sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic will work again.

H