unable to run synaptic
Kjetil Halvorsen
kjetil1001 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 19:55:48 UTC 2009
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 14:04, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 04/28/2009 09:49 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
>
> Please post the output of the following terminal commands:
>
> $ cat /etc/sudoers
> $ groups
>
I get this output:
kjetil at familien:~$ cat /etc/sudoers
cat: /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
kjetil at familien:~$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers
sudo: unable to resolve host familien
[sudo] password for kjetil:
# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
Defaults env_reset
# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL
kjetil at familien:~$ groups
kjetil adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev fuse lpadmin admin
kjetil at familien:~$
kjetil
>
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