Lost Admin ability

[Steven Davies-Morris]

David B. Toth wrote:
> 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

I had the same thing happen with the latest kernel and was only able to 
fix it my clearing the APT cache and forcing a redownload and reinstall 
of update manager and synaptic as root at the command line.

I was planning on upgrading my AMD box from the i386 to the AMD64 o/s 
anyway so after doing all that I went ahead.  Meaning I don't know if 
subsequently it wouldn't break again.  YMMV.
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