Upgrading Woes

[Colin Law]

On 15 October 2011 13:19, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> 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).

Probably nothing to do with your problem but if you want to run "sudo"
on a graphical app you must use gksu, so it should be
gksu software-properties-gtk

Colin