[Bug 829099] Re: synaptic-pkexec fails: cannot open display 0

[Jonathan Thomas]

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Title:
  synaptic-pkexec fails: cannot open display 0

Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  jonathan at jonathan-laptop:~/$ synaptic-pkexec 
  No protocol specified

  (synaptic:10136): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

  Using synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu6.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: synaptic 0.75.2ubuntu6 [modified: usr/share/applications/synaptic-kde.desktop]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.10-generic-pae 3.0.1
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Aug 18 19:40:28 2011
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928.3)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: synaptic
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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