Weird permissions behaviour!

[Junin Toiro]

Hiya Cary, also my first post to the lists though I've been reading
them for quite a while ;)

Testing Hardy already huh? You're gamer than I am that's for sure :)

I actually remember having a similar problem back on Feisty quite a
while ago (probably in beta) and from memory it was a perms problem
with my /home/user directory. Why that would bork gksudo I can't tell
you but what I'd suggest is posting your apt-get results and perhaps
the perms on your home dir, ownership and the like. IIRC it was a
matter of cleaning up the apt problems and reapplying correct
permissions to /home/.

Not sure if this will help in your case but thought I'd mention it as
it sounds very similar to what happened to me.

Good luck!

On 11/16/07, Cary Bielenberg <cary at bielenberg.id.au> wrote:
> Hi, Be gently with me this is my 1st post on this list :-[
> I run Kubuntu hardy on a Lenovo T61 laptop! Up until yesterday things
> have been fine, I did my morning upgrade to see what breaks & to my
> surprise it actually did! My Issue is that I cant sudo from within the
> GUI ie synaptic or Adept etc also my desktop has mount points & not my
> real desktop icons :-(  I can navigate to /home/user/Desktop & see my
> default icons ok! but I cant delete or add on the mucked up desktop!
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? I have posted on the
> hardy dev forum but no-one has replied so I guess it is a specific
> problem to me :'(
>
>
> Cary
>
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