Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

[Lars Wirzenius]

On su, 2008-02-03 at 09:05 -0600, Richard Mancusi wrote:
> vrman at T41:~$ gksu update-manager
> warning: could not initiate dbus

You don't need to run update-manager as root. It will switch to root
(and ask for username then) when it needs it. This should at least fix
the dbus initialization problem. (I don't know about the other problems,
which may be unrelated.)