NTFS and Root problems

[lymantc]

I have two questions...first whenever I try to log in to my root account from Gnome I'm getting the following error

"Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root

Failed to communicate with gksu-run-helper.

Received:
setgid: Operation not permitted

While Expecting:
gksu: waiting"

If anyone knows what is going on or how to fix this please let me know.

Also what are your opinions on the best way to interact with a WinXP NTFS partition on the same dual boot machine?

Thanks,
-Ted

[jledhead]

are you logging in as root or are you su - to root?

if you are logging in as root, don't do that. log in as your user and then when doing things like opening synaptic it will prompt for root password.



for working with ntfs drives use ntfs-3g because it can safely read and write to ntfs, and depending on if you use testing or unstable can be installed using apt-get

[lymantc]

No, I log into Gnome as my normal user and then when I either try to open synaptic or the "root terminal", it asks for my root password, and then I get that error message. If I switch to one of the other terminals however (via ctrl-alt F1 etc...) it will let me 'su' into the root account.

[jledhead]

some things to try, open a regular terminal from gnome as your user and type
#su -

and see if you can log in. if you can try to launch synaptic by typing just synaptic or /usr/sbin/synaptic
and see what happens.

if that works then exit out of your su - session and from a normal user terminal type gksu synaptic and enter the password and see what happens