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

Kevin O'Gorman kogorman at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 14:32:01 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:49 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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

I know that.  The line is simply quoted from system output.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD




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