Sudden complications with Adept and Synaptic - partly solved

[Steven Vollom]

Bas Roufs wrote:
> Dear Ulrich, dear everybody
>   
>> But getting root access via 'sudo' does work?
>>   
>>     
>
> No, not really! By example the command 'sudo dkgp' delivers the 
> following result:
>
> bas at Viaconsensus1:~$ sudo dkgp
> [sudo] password for bas: (here I type my password and hit the enter button)
>
> One should expect getting in root now, but this is not the case. I see 
> again this at the terminal:
> bas at Viaconsensus1:~$
>
> The only way I do manage to get root-access is like this:
>
> bas at Viaconsensus1:~$ su
> Password:
> root at Viaconsensus1:/home/bas#
>
> Some things do work, others not.
>
>   
>> If not, there could be something wrong with the 'sudo'.
>>     
> You might be right.
>
>   
>> In that case,the sudo-package might have to be reinstalled.
>>     
>
> Pls. tell me how. Do I first need to remove the 'old' sudo package?
>
>
>   
>> BTW: has that strange tty-console problem of yours been solved? The
>> problem that no tty shows up after boot up. It would mean two strange
>> problems occurring simultaneously, maybe not completely accidental?
>>   
>>     
>
> May be you're right. But I first need to know how I can CHECK wether 
> this tty-console problem has been solved or not.
>
> Ulrich - pls. consult also another message off-list.
>
> Thx.
>
> Bas.
>
>
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>   
I am not very experienced, however, I had a problem where I needed to 
fix a broken package.  I booted to where you have a choice of opening 
your OS or opening in Safe Mode.  When I clicked on that, there were two 
choices where if you clicked on them they fixed problems.  At the end of 
the repair procedure, I was asked if I wanted to continue opening up 
normally, I did, and the OS opened fixed. 

I wish I were more experienced, I could give you more specific 
instruction, but it was not necessary for me to find the code to type 
into the terminal or reinstall anything and everything was fixed.

Hope this is useful.

Steven