After upgrade to jaunty, cannot use gksu or log in via ssh

[NoOp]

On 07/16/2009 03:04 PM, Keith wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:36:49 -0700, "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have a Dell inspirion laptop on which I installed intrepid about a
>>year ago when I got it.
>>I upgraded to jaunty yesterday and while most things are working for
>>me, there are still two things that don't.
>>
>>1) gksu does not work.  The first time I use it, it silently fails
>>with return value 1.  The second time it gives an error message that
>>it cannot contact the gconf daemon.  This suggests that the first
>>attempt has killed the daemon as well as causing an error.  I have no
>>idea what to do about this.  My usual command-line is
>>   gksu -u root x-terminal-emulator
> 
> Upon reinstall the root password may have been changed use

A root password is not required with gksu or sudo, please see:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
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