[hoary] sudo authentication problem

[Philippe Landau]

thank you spizkapa and Nathan

>>since some time when i start synaptic through the menu,
>>it does not load.
>>when i try it through the terminal,
>>the following happens:

>>user at donkey:~ $ sudo synaptic &
>>Password:
>>[1] 7249
>>
>>[1]+  Stopped                 sudo synaptic
>>user at donkey:~ $ sudo ls
>>Password:
>>Desktop
>>user at donkey:~ $ sudo synaptic &
>>[2] 7261
>>user at donkey:~ $
> 
> Use gksudo as that's what the launcher in the menu uses.  
 > 'gksudo synaptic &' should work fine because it will
 > pop up a dialog box for you to enter your password.

interesting suggestion, it gives:

user at donkey:~ $ gksudo synaptic &
[1] 9614
user at donkey:~ $
** (gksudo:9614): WARNING **: Lock found: /home/hope/.gksu.lock. Exiting.

 > Also, I've never confirmed this, but I'm pretty sure
 > running various gui apps as root will change the
 > ownership of ~/.ICEauthority to root:root
 > which gdm doesn't like (won't let you log in).
should ubuntu not check this and offer to remedy ?

kind regards     philippe