Synaptic on Guest account will start from command line, but not System->Administration

[David Collins]

Binary package hint: synaptic

When in a Guest account, I can start Synaptic Package Manager from the command line. It gives me a dialog warning that I don't have administrative privilages, but it still opens up.

However, when I open it from the System->Administration menu, a taskbar item comes up displaying "Starting Administrative..." but then quickly closes. Synaptic doesn't open up or anything, that's it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: synaptic 0.63.1ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Aug 28 17:20:20 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic

[Jeff Stone (stone1343)]

Technically, this is working as designed, but gksu should issue a better error message, to the effect that "the current user does not have authority to issue sudo commands"