<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Stefan Schwarzburg wrote: <blockquote cite="midc5726b700701082337r700f086bv43721e125ec94a9d@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Hi, I have a problem. After Alternate CD installation, the systemtools (like the one to configure the network cards) worked from the menu. Than I did a upgrade of all available packages and now I allways get this message when I try to start these tools: "The configuration could not be loaded / You are not allowed to access the system configuration. " I can however do "sudo xterm" and then in this new terminal type "network-admin". Then I get the systemtool. </blockquote> Same here on 2 machines (both Edgy -> one upgrade, one fresh install) I (harold) am a member of the 'admin' group: harold@DBWS439:~$ id uid=1000(harold) gid=1000(harold) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(lpadmin),111(scanner),113(admin),114(fuse),1000(harold) harold@DBWS439:~$ cat /etc/group|grep adm adm:x:4:harold lpadmin:x:107:harold admin:x:113:harold harold@DBWS439:~$ ls -la `which network-admin` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 104096 2006-10-02 17:05 /usr/bin/network-admin Which group do I need to join to be able to launch the system tools from the menu again? -H- <blockquote cite="midc5726b700701082337r700f086bv43721e125ec94a9d@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Can somebody help me here? Cheers, Stefan -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Institut für Astronomie und Astrophysik Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Sand 1   -  D-72076 Tübingen <a href="mailto:schwarz@astro.uni-tuebingen.de">schwarz@astro.uni-tuebingen.de</a> <a href="mailto:stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com">stefan.schwarzburg@googlemail.com</a> Tel.: 07071/29-78605 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- </blockquote> </body> </html>