Package: menu Version: 2.1.43 Severity: important When I installed my system, I intentionally didn't specify a root password, which seemed to be a supported installation option. I created a normal user and I can use sudo just fine. But Gnome menus like System->Administration->Synaptic don't work: they ask for the root password, which doesn't exist, so I can never authenticate. I see that these menus invoke su-to-root -X, which has a variable named SU_TO_ROOT_X, but it doesn't support sudo or gksudo. Other menu items work like this so this should be fixed in the su-to-root script.
-- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages menu depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 menu recommends no packages. Versions of packages menu suggests: ii gksu 2.0.2-2+b1 graphical frontend to su -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
