System configuration tools crash!

[Eric Feliksik]

I need to correct myself.
When running "gksudo time-admin" in a shell, I saw the password wasn't 
accepted. I should have typed my own password instead of the root password.
1) wouldn't it be useful give a message that the password is not 
correct, instead of exiting with "1 status"?

Regards,

Eric


Eric Feliksik wrote:
> When I run time-admin or users-admin from an xterm, the application 
> appears grayed out with a dialog that requests root-password. I type in 
> the password and the application becomes active and work. So far, so good.
> 
> But when I run any of the system config tools that require root (like 
> "Time and Date", "users and groups" via te Computer/System_configuration 
> menu, the root password windows appears, but now application in the 
> background. After entering the password, and waiting for 4 seconds, the 
> following dialog message appears:
> 
> Failed to run time-admin as user root:
>  Child terminated with 1 status
> 
> The difference is that the admin-entries run "gksudo time-admin". So 
> this doesn't work.
> 
> Do any others experience this problem?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Eric
>