synaptic doesn't open when opened from the menu, or gnome-do

[YaManicKill]

Binary package hint: synaptic

When opening synaptic from the Ubuntu menu, or from gnome-do, the password dialog opens up, and when the password is correctly entered, synaptic does not open up.

When "gksu synaptic" is run from the terminal, this is shown:

               username@Host:~$ gksu synaptic
               sudo: sorry, a password is required to run sudo

Synaptic will open when "sudo synaptic" is run from the command line.

I think it must be something to do with gksu, as when I open a .deb file, it opens up, but when "Install package" is clicked, it closes without installing, however they can be installed using "sudo gdebi package.deb" or "sudo dpkg -i package.deb" are run from the terminal.

I am running Karmic 64-bit.

[YaManicKill (yamanickill)]

Thought I would try other things that run with gksu, and it turns out that gparted doesn't work either. So clearly, the problem seems to be with gksu, and not synaptic.

gksudo also does the same as gksu

[Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij)]

Thanks for taking the time to report the bug. It seems to be the same one as this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/394261, apparently an update fixed the problem. If you can confirm that too, we can close this bug report.

[YaManicKill (yamanickill)]

Yes, I can confirm that this update fixed the problem.