On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 05:42:27AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Looking at that machine with htop, and no one logged in on its own > console as its waiting for a login because a power bump rebooted it in > the night last night and I haven't been up to the shop building to login > since. > > I see no wayland and 3 instances of xorg running. So its the GTK stuff > thats actually missing and the error message I paste quoted is > miss-leading. Since the default gui is xfce4, what do I "apt install" to > restore gksudo and synaptic to normal function? I think gksudo and cousins (among them the KDE flavour whose name I keep forgetting) are dead, they don't exist in Debian since buster. The New Way (TM) seems to be to muck around policykit (which I don't know well enough to help you with, sorry). Have you tried my 'ssh -E' proposal from the other mail? On my box it works, but my box is sufficiently different from yours (legacy X setup, no dbus, no systemd) that the outcome might well be different. Cheers - t
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