On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 00:05 +0200, Andrea S. Gozzi wrote: > I've set up my primary sid desktop to update time with NTP via the Gnome > clock application. > Now it seems that the NTP server has gone offline and the displayed time > has a -5min difference with the real one. I wanted to use the servers > pool instead but I can't access the menu. > Every time I try to obtain privileges the password is rejected and I > typed it in enough times to be sure it's the correct one.. > This happens only with the Time/Date app, everything else works > perfectly (synaptic, disks, gparted, ..) . > Has this happened to somebody else?
gnome-system-tools are run using gksu, when run from the clock applet it uses the built in function to ask for root password[0]. I'm not sure if this is what's causing your problems, but you could try running time-admin using gksu. A more likely guess is that you're bitten by bug 418513 which should be fixed now, look for an updated package in incoming. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418513 0. I think this is fixed in the newer releases, they should be available in Debian quite soon. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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