Florian, You are wonderful! I went into my hosts file, and sure enough there was no listing for my hostname (I entered a bogus domain about a month ago, and then decided to remove it the same day, and the hosts file still contained the bogus domain!). After correcting the 127.0.0.1 hostname line, gksu worked fine! Sincerely, Brain Cell
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