Upgrading Woes

[Bruce Pieterse]

On Sat 15 Oct 2011 14:19:31 SAST, Amichai Rotman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I went on and upgraded my Natty to Oneiric. Among other problems, 
> whenever I run a program that requires root privileges, it does start, 
> but without asking for the root password. For example: Software 
> Sources, Software Center...
>
> So, when I click on the install, nothing happens - instead of popping 
> the GkSu prompt for the root password...
>
> I was never ever, even once, successful with an OS version upgrade, 
> but I always try to give it a chance... This time, nearly the end of 
> the process, the display went semi transparent, the mouse core pointer 
> was normally usable but I couldn't choose any element, so when it got 
> to asking me if I want to remove the unneeded programs, I couldn't 
> answer and had to kill the X server. I ran apt-get update, upgrade and 
> dist-upgrade - all went well. lsb_release shows the correct version.
>
> I cannot re-enable the 3rd party PPAs, even with running the Software 
> Sources app from CLI (sudo software-properties-gtk).
>
> I am about to just re-install the whole system from scratch, 
> formatting the root partition. Luckily, my Home resides on a separate 
> partition. Is there something I should do in my home directory before 
> re-installing (like renaming the ~/.config and ~/.local directories)?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Amichai.
>
>

Amichai,

Have you tried resetting your password through user accounts?


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Best of luck,

Bruce