Home / ubuntu / Questions / 217976
In Process
Chud37
Asked: 2012-11-17 02:18:49 +0800 CST

gkSudo fails with critical error

  • 772

I am trying to run gkSudo. This is my second day as a linux user.

Yesterday I could do

gksudo gedit

and input my root password fine.

Today, when I run that, the GUI comes up and asked for my password, however then the program fails to run and all I get is:

(gksudo:3262): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed

I cannot sudo, I cannot su, I can't do anything. I am trying to add myself to the sudoers file but I can't even view it without being root. What can I do?

command-line

1 Answers

  1. I don't think this is a problem with your sudoers file. There are other reports of a similar bug in the debian bugtracker.

    • 2