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Sudo appears to be unresponsive

Bug #32883 reported by Loyal on 2006-02-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #25598: Cannot launch sudo applications from GNOME menus. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Ubuntu	New	Medium	Unassigned
	sudo (Ubuntu)	New	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

After doing a fresh install of 5.10 on a laptop, I find myself unable to use the update manager, Synaptic, etc. The password dialog opens, but then nothing happens after I enter my password. As a test I tried to use sudo in the terminal to unmount a partition that was not in use. The terminal accepted the command and made no error reports, but the partition was still mounted afterwards.

As a sidenote: I had 5.10 working quite well on this machine earlier, but had tried to use one of the test flight cds for a Dapper Drake installation just before this.

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Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe) wrote on 2006-02-26:

Could you run gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic from the command line and see whether it prints anything interesting after you enter your password?

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Loyal (dt876) wrote on 2006-02-27:

I found bug #25598 (I think this should be the right link) https://launchpad.net/malone/bugtrackers/ubuntu-bugzilla/19481 . I was indeed doing the expert install, so I redid it and made a new user afterwards, which seemed to work fine. I must apologize, I left my laptop while it was downloading new packages and forgot to update this report until now.