Re: Not authorized to run synaptic

2023-08-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:11:01 -0300 Bruno Schneider wrote: > Apparently, some service needed to be restarted, because the problem > went away after a reboot. Perhaps policykit? > > Anyway, for future reference, I'm not on the sudo group and I found > nothing interesting on changelogs. Something

Re: Not authorized to run synaptic

2023-08-29 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:11:01 -0300 Bruno Schneider wrote: Hello Bruno, >Apparently, some service needed to be restarted, because the problem >went away after a reboot. Perhaps policykit? Almost certainly; Here, Synaptic required root password *until* policykit was installed (as a dependency

Re: Not authorized to run synaptic

2023-08-29 Thread Bruno Schneider
Apparently, some service needed to be restarted, because the problem went away after a reboot. Perhaps policykit? Anyway, for future reference, I'm not on the sudo group and I found nothing interesting on changelogs. Something (I guess pkexec) asks for the root password (not the user's password)

Re: Not authorized to run synaptic

2023-08-29 Thread Christian Britz
Am 28.08.23 um 19:24 schrieb Joe: > It's not obvious. I run synaptic from a standard menu launcher, where > the command is just synaptic-pkexec. It then requests the root password > before running. I'm on sid, which still ought to be very close to > testing at the moment. For me it asks for

Re: Not authorized to run synaptic

2023-08-28 Thread Joe
On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 13:32:16 -0300 Bruno Schneider wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running Debian Testing, using XFCE. I run synaptic package manager > from a launcher I made a few years ago. After a system upgrade today, > I can no longer run synaptic from the launcher. > > Using the command line

Re: Not authorized to run synaptic

2023-08-28 Thread zithro
On 28 Aug 2023 18:32, Bruno Schneider wrote: Hi all, I'm running Debian Testing, using XFCE. I run synaptic package manager from a launcher I made a few years ago. After a system upgrade today, I can no longer run synaptic from the launcher. Using the command line (same command as the

Not authorized to run synaptic

2023-08-28 Thread Bruno Schneider
Hi all, I'm running Debian Testing, using XFCE. I run synaptic package manager from a launcher I made a few years ago. After a system upgrade today, I can no longer run synaptic from the launcher. Using the command line (same command as the launcher), I got this: $ /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec