Package Managers no longer ask for sudo password

[Member Pepper]

Hi all,

First, congratulations to all involved in the production of AntiX. It makes my 12 year old laptop run faster than when I bought it.

I have had one issue with this distribution, though, and have searched web forums here and elsewhere without finding anything apposite. This is the problem, which has happened twice over a few months:

* Package management programs suddenly no longer ask for user (sudo) password when I try to open them. Consequently, via Control Centre or menus, Repo Manager, Package Installer, and Synaptic will not open. If, in Control Centre/Session, I switch to su (root) password, then the first two package managers ask for and accept the su password and open. Synaptic asks for su password but does not open — I read on this forum that was to be expected. (It is possible other programs asking for administrative privileges also do not work with user/sudo password in these circumstances; I did not try them all.) The user/sudo password does work in Terminal and for login etc.

Thus, if I enter the user/sudo password in a Terminal session (say after a ‘sudo apt update’ command), the entire problem can be temporarily remedied, inasmuch as all 3 package managers will then open WITHOUT EVEN ASKING for my user password (presumably this will last until the sudo password delay expires). I did not think to try gksudo.

I have simply reinstalled anti-x to solve this fully, (once a full 19.1 install, this second time an install from a system snapshot, leaving my home directory intact). This works, and is quick, but it seems like overkill.

Any ideas anyone? I am new to Linux (but not to command lines).

Any help would be much appreciated. Of course this not urgent, as all is well for now. Just trying to understand.

Best wishes to all in these sombre times.

Pepper

[Forum Admin Dave]

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For clarification. When you say they no longer ask; do you mean that the window does not appear or that the password is not recognized as correct?

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[Member Pepper]

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The window does not appear at all.

Forgot to post my specs:

inxi -r

Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main nonfree nosystemd
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list

System:

Host: baba Kernel: 4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.6.5
Distro: antiX-19_x64-full Marielle Franco 16 October 2019
base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Acer product: Aspire 5630 v: V3.60 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Acer model: Grapevine serial: <filter> BIOS: Acer v: 3.60
date: 08/12/2008
Battery:
ID-1: BAT1 charge: 15.8 Wh condition: 18.2/44.4 Wh (41%)
model: SANYO GC86508SAT0 status: Charging
CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core2 T5500 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Core Merom rev: 6 L2 cache: 2048 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 ssse3 bogomips: 6650
Speed: 1000 MHz min/max: 1000/1667 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1000 2: 1000
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300]
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: nouveau v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1280×800~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NV46 v: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus ID: 00:1b.0
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.193-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:
Device-1: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network driver: iwl3945
v: in-tree:s port: 5420 bus ID: 05:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Acer Incorporated ALI driver: b44 v: 2.0 port: 5420
bus ID: 06:01.0
IF-ID-1: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 149.05 GiB used: 7.03 GiB (4.7%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9160821A size: 149.05 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 14.80 GiB used: 3.85 GiB (26.0%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /home size: 19.08 GiB used: 3.18 GiB (16.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-3: swap-1 size: 3.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda1
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: 48.0 C gpu: nouveau temp: 40 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 149 Uptime: 7h 58m Memory: 2.94 GiB used: 620.3 MiB (20.6%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3
inxi: 3.0.36

thx

Pepper

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