Comment 7 for bug 253439

Results of running gksu id: uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
Seems to work fine.

As far as installing libgksu, I don't follow a lot of the Linux news and other than being able to muck around in my system I'm not a Linux heavy. I do have a very heavy Windows background but I've been away from programming for about 6 years now and getting quite rusty. I will gladly install it if you would kindly point me in the right direction. Once I'm on the right path I can easily take it from there.

It seems as if the problem only pops up when I click on the panel icon when it reports that updates are available. If I ignore the icon and start the update-manager directly the problem never occurs. I've got a pretty standard system with no tweaks or development loads. I have installed all available updates.

If there is anything else I can do to help please let me know.

PS - Despite being a prior Windows programmer (mostly database and VB6 applications) I prefer to boot to Linux. Perhaps one of these days I will find the time to learn how to program in this environment.

Thanks!
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> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:09:29 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 253439] Re: Update manager hangs on starting admin
>
> Thanks for this bugreport.
>
> Could you please open a termianl and run "gksu id" and let me know if
> that works (or hangs) and what that outputs? Could you also please
> install the latest version of libgksu from hardy-proposed and check if
> that fixes the issue?
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Michael Vogt (mvo)
>
> --
> Update manager hangs on starting admin
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253439
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> Status in “update-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I am running 2.6.24-19 Linux Ubuntu release 8.04.1 with all available updates as of 7-30-08. Update manager will start normally but when I click on the "Install Updates" button I get the normal response of "Starting Administrator" but no login box appears. From that point on the Update Manager is frozen. This seems to happen only if another program has been started before running the Update Manager. If I reboot and immediately start Update Manager from the menu everything works fine. It seems to hang when starting from the updates are available icon. At this time this is an annoyance.

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