Lost Admin ability

[Brendan Strunk]

> Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 13:57:00 -0400
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> From: ve3gyq at amsat.org
> Subject: Lost Admin ability
> 
> I upgraded my dual-boot HP laptop to 8.04 and seem to have lost the 
> ability to do some admin things, like Synaptic, Update mgr, and other 
> things related to packages ...
> It never asks me for my admin password, the system seems to ruminate 
> for a while, and then it goes on like I didn't click anything ...
> 
> sudo still workls as in    sudo gedit filename     but that's about 
> it ....  this was an upgrade from 7.10 .... and this is with the 
> newer kernel (old kernel and recovery kernel act the same).
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
> 
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