gksudo/gksu silently refuses to do anything

[Jaken Veina]

This comes at some point after installing GNS3 and Dynamips, which require administrator access as GUI's. Although, the first couple times I tried to run GNS3 as administrator, it worked fine. I do still receive the password prompt, whether running from the command line or the context menu. Note that GNS3 is the first application for which I've needed to run gksudo, so this may have been an issue before the above were installed, although I've always been able to run "Open as Administrator" in Nautilus and "Synaptic Package Manager," which now will not run either.

Running Ubuntu 10.10.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

[Bonster]

run "gksu" and try to change some options, like make sure it says root

[Jaken Veina]

No, gksu has had the same reaction.

I've found that the following command gets things working properly again


xhost +LOCAL:

but is not persistent after a reboot. Any way to make this permanent?

[Bonster]

Maybe add it to autostart programs so it will load up after every boot