sudo and su stopped working??

[NoOp]

On 03/27/2009 01:06 PM, NoOp wrote:

> Now the interesting thing is on this machine where I have a root
> account, I cannot open Synaptic without using the root pass word rather
> than my user password. It also provides a new password popup that has an
> option to save the password for the session and or add it to the
> keyring. I get the same issue on gksu and sudo.
> 
> On an identical machine with no root account installed (same updates),
> Synaptics works as normal.

Sorry for the noise... found my Hardy issue:

$ ps -e |grep gconf
10926 ?        00:00:04 gconfd-2
$ kill 10926
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf2