Comment 10 for bug 237662

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Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) wrote : Re: Update 2.6.24.18.20 fails

Ah, I think I might see where the problem is...

Can you try, from a command line, running "gksudo synaptic" (rather than "sudo synaptic"). Gksudo is the GNOME dialog to give you sudo access--if something is wrong with that, then that will block any program that attempts to bring up that password dialog--producing exactly the results you see.