unable to run synaptic

[NoOp]

On 04/28/2009 09:49 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
> Yesterday I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, and today I am unable to run
> synaptic ! I get a window with the message:
> 
> "failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic  as root, unable to copy the users
> Xauthorization file"
> 
> what to do?
> 
> Kjetil
> 
> 

Please post the output of the following terminal commands:

$ cat /etc/sudoers
$ groups