Synaptic from the menu ...

[Jon Dixon]

Encountered this myself last night.

You can fix it easily, but a reboot does put it back to non-functional.

To save time (until they hopefully fix it) open a terminal and just do
'sudo synaptic' and put in your password. Has worked fine for me.

HTH,

Jon

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:55 +0100, OIM wrote:
> I upgrade today my Hoary box. The synaptic software menu entry have
> changed and is no more called thru gksudo but gksu ... On my box
> configured with an inactive root account (the ubuntu default), this
> cannot be achieved ... Is it the beginning of a new ubuntu policy or is
> it a mistake while packaging Synaptic ?
> 
> 
> 
-- 
Jon Dixon <jon at dixon-online.co.uk>