synaptic fails to run as root

Bug #10267 reported by Philippe Landau
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
synaptic (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

i just installed parted-doc and qtparted using synaptic.
then i closed the synaptic window and got:

>Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root:
>Unterprozess endete mit dem Status 75

opening synaptic again now and quitting without problems.

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Philippe Landau (lists-mailry) wrote :

now trying to run qtparted it says:

error:
entry could not be started
Details: Kindprozess »/usr/sbin/su-to-root« konnte nicht ausgeführt werden
(Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden)
meaning childprocess could not be executed (file or dir not found)

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I fixed the qtparted problem with the upload of qtparted-0.4.4-3ubuntu1. but I
have no idea about the:
"""
>Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root:
>Unterprozess endete mit dem Status 75
"""
this looks like a message from gksudo to me ...

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=1518)
error's screenshot

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magilus (magilus) wrote :

Same error here - with all "system configuration" tools...

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Luis Villa (luis-villa) wrote :

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9214.

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