On Sunday 25 December 2016 17:23:08 Chris Albertson wrote: > Have you tried typing "sudo synaptic-pkexec" rather than " > synaptic-pkexec" and is your logged in user in the /etc/sudoers > file? > > Also you can alway just use "apt" or apt-get" for package management > at the command prompt. Much simpler and faster.
Yes it is, no question about that. But what package? apt apparently has no way to show you whats missing that is killing your x. I do have an /etc/init.d/x11-common, which has to be running if I want it to display on another machine. And I do have it running that way by putting a 10 in front of the error and ferror values in he ini files [joint] settings. With synaptic its a piece of cake to scroll down the the X stuffs and look thru the list for the usual suspects, click, mark install, click apply and ok, done. Reboot if needed. The logs are either non-existant, or silent of any clues that might point to a missing package. And lightdm is installed. However, /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf has an empty [seat] stanza. Please, you who are running an r-pi, with the x gui working, send me the output of grep -v '#' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf The one I have doesn't even start a "default seat". I've enabled that, and we'll see what logs if any are generated. Thanks. > > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent > > permitted by applicable law. > > Last login: Sat Dec 24 19:49:11 2016 from coyote.coyote.den > > pi@raspberrypi:~ $ synaptic-pkexec > > ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic === > > Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager > > Authenticating as: root > > Password: > > polkit-agent-helper-1: pam_authenticate failed: Authentication > > failure ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === > > Error executing command as another user: Not authorized > > > > This incident has been reported. > > pi@raspberrypi:~ $ synaptic-pkexec > > ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic === > > Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager > > Authenticating as: root > > Password: > > polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: > > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for > > cookie > > ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === > > Error executing command as another user: Not authorized > > > > This incident has been reported. > > ================================== > > I tried both the root pw and mine. > > > > WTHeck is this com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic BS? Of course its wrong, > > but how can this be fixed so I can run synaptic from a remote login? > > > > Or, how do I make this machine accept a display of 10: ?? > > > > Thank you all & Merry Christmas everybody > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >---------- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors > > Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. > > With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. > > Training and support from Colfax. > > Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/intel > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/intel _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
