On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:44:04PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello. I recently upgraded to Sid, and I cannot run root commands as a
> regular user. When I try to run Synaptic, I get the following message
> after entering the root password:
> "Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root:
> Failed to communicate with gksu-run-helper.
I don't use Synaptic and I don't use Gnome at home, but two things
spring to mind:
1. gksu-run-helper is in the libgksu1.2-0 package. Is that installed
on your system?
2. Are you in the /etc/sudoers file? If not, log in as root and run
the visudo command.
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