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

[NoOp]

On 07/21/2009 07:32 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ummm... the reply was in reference to Keith's comment(s). Please note
the attribution marks.