Hi. I have this machine "alexandria" onto which I installed Debian yesterday:
eben@alexandria:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 12.10 It has a video card and a keyboard, but to log in there I have to get down on the floor, so I usually access it via ssh. Right now I'm trying to use synaptic to install some software, but I get this when I try as me: ,-- | eben@alexandria:~$ synaptic-pkexec | ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic ==== | Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager | Authenticating as: root | Password: | polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: | GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for |cookie | ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED ==== | Error executing command as another user: Not authorized | | This incident has been reported. | eben@alexandria:~$ '-- As root it's even shorter: ,-- | root@alexandria:~# synaptic | Failed to initialize GTK. | | Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. | Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without | root permission | root@alexandria:~# '-- xev works as not-root, so X clients in general work. So how do I get around this? Installing not-Wayland is an option, but I probably should replace it with some WIMP interface so if I need it, it's there. Thanks.
