[PLUG] Broken root!

[drew wymore]

open a terminal and see if you can sudo to root ... if you can then as your
regular user type again in a prompt xhost + and then try clicking the icon
again ...

On 4/19/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I installed the final of Feisty amd64 Desktop on my new computer this
> morning. Then I used the new computer to back up my Edgy amd64 laptop,
> preparatory to doing an apt-get dist-upgrade on the laptop. Everything
> was going fine on the new computer until I decided I wanted to install
> more software. I clicked on System > Administration > Synaptic Package
> Manager, expecting the little window for my root password to pop up.
> Instead I got a window that said:
>
> Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root.
> Unable to copy the user's Xauthorization file.
>
> What happened? Root password was working before because I did the
> backup as root with the cp command after mounting the laptop via nfs. I
> copied everything to a folder I created on the new computer, ~/backups.
> I can't understand how it would be possible, but could the backup have
> goobered up the root account?
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