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gdesilva
July 9th, 2020, 12:58 PM
Upgraded Lubuntu on my laptop to 20.04 and noticed that I can no longer run apps such as gparted by selecting in from the menu. When clicked I am asked to provide the password and after that nothing happens. However, I can start gparted from terminal using sudo without any issues.

After searching a lot I found that this is a known bug with Lxqt - essentially you cannot have two users in the sudo group. So the simple workaround is to remove the second (and/or any others) from the sudo group by issuing

deluser <second user> sudo

The problem has been raised by derk here https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/685817

Bug report can be found here..https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-meta/+bug/1828663

Hope this helps anyone else who has come across this issue.