Synaptic was build with the Debian specific patches instead of the ubuntu one on i386

[Alan Claunch]

You can run "sudo synaptic" from the command line and it works fine. However, if
you run synaptic from System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager, it calls
gksu? which requests the "Root password". If you enter your user password, there
is an error message that "/usr/sbin/synaptic must be run as root".

All the other items in System-Administration allow you to run as "sudo" (ie, you
enter your user password in the gksu window); with synaptic you either have to
set a root password or run from the command line.

I am using the latest Dapper build as of 11/14/05 and gksu is version 1.3.6

Alan

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please upgrade to:
ii gksu 1.3.6-1ubuntu1 graphical frontend to su
ii synaptic 0.57.5.1ubuntu Graphical package manager

(in dapper) and let me know if that fixes your problem?

Cheers,
 Michael

[Alan Claunch (aclaunch)]

Both gksu and synaptic are latest: gksu 1.3.6-1ubuntu1 and synaptic 0.57.5-1ubuntu2

Alan

[Paul Coleman (pdcoleman)]

The first time trying starting synaptic after upgrading it asked for the
password to the gnome key ring.

When starting synaptic with or without a cached root password(gksu) you get

Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root:
 Wrong password.

Both gksu and synaptic are the latest.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for the additional information.

I can't reproduce the problem here, synaptic asks me for my password and starts
correctly.

Can you please let me know what the following command outputs:
$ grep Exec /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop

Does "gksudo synaptic" (from the commandline) work correctly?

Thanks,
 Michael

[Alan Claunch (aclaunch)]

aclaunch@moria:~$ grep Exec /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop
Exec=gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic

And yes, gksudo synaptic works fine.

Alan

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

*** Bug 25782 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

According to this buildlog:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~lamont/buildLogs/s/synaptic/0.57.5.1ubuntu2/synaptic_0.57.5.1ubuntu2_20051114-1545-i386-successful.gz

lsb_release -i -s returnd "Debian". That's why no ubuntu specific patches (like
use gksudo, icons) are applied.

It a simple matter of a recompile when lsb_release returns the correct answer :)

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

*** Bug 25807 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

*** Bug 25812 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This problem is fixed with the upload of synaptic 0.57.5.1ubuntu3. Please reopen
if it dosn't solve that bug for you.