On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 14:04, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On 04/28/2009 09:49 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: > Yesterday I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, and today I am unable to run > synaptic ! I get a window with the message: > > "failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as root, unable to copy the users > Xauthorization file" > > what to do? > > Kjetil > > </div>Please post the output of the following terminal commands: $ cat /etc/sudoers $ groups </blockquote><div>I get this output: kjetil@familien:~$ cat /etc/sudoers cat: /etc/sudoers: Permission denied kjetil@familien:~$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers sudo: unable to resolve host familien [sudo] password for kjetil: # /etc/sudoers # # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. # # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. # Defaults env_reset # Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password # %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL # Host alias specification # User alias specification # Cmnd alias specification # User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL kjetil@familien:~$ groups kjetil adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev fuse lpadmin admin kjetil@familien:~$ kjetil </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- "Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature." - Hermann Weyl