unable to run synaptic

[Kjetil Halvorsen]

Yesterday I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, and today I am unable to run
synaptic ! I get a window with the message:

"failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic  as root, unable to copy the users
Xauthorization file"

what to do?

Kjetil

-- 
"Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman
thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of
constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature."
                                    - Hermann Weyl
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