Re: [Gnewsense-dev] su-to-root problem (synaptic, etc)

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 11:04:25PM +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Robert Millan schreef:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I mostly solved the su-to-root problem (causing links in the GNOME
>> menu for synaptic, etc, that need root to be unable to access root
>> permissions).
>>
>> I'll arrange it for new installs to get the fix automagically; for
>> existing installs:
>>
>> 1) add the following line to /etc/sudoers:
>>
>> %sudo   ALL=(ALL) ALL
>>
>> 2) add your user to "sudo" group (adduser youruser sudo)
>>
>> 3) dist-upgrade
>>
>
> I can't say that it works for me either. I did as you said and rebooted.  
> I then tried terminal as root and synaptic, both of which asked a  
> password, but didn't start.
>
> Was the dist-upgrade supposed to install something relevant to this?  
> Because all I got were packages regarding the archive keyring, color  
> management and xulrunner (-dbg version of the latter for some reason).

Yeah, gnewsense-artwork 41gnewsense18.2

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