Dapper -> 6.10 breake gksudo and then some System/Adminsitrations options aren't availables

Thanks for your bugreport.

What locale do you use? Does it work if you login in with a english locale?

Thanks,
 Michael

I've changed to "C" and problem persists in System/administration menu
Options unavailable:
networkmanager (Networking)
services
shared folders
Date and time
Users and groups

Options that ask user passwords as expected:
firestarter
gparted
gnome-language-selector
gdmsetup
synaptic

Message box:
+==============+
The Configuration Could not be loaded
You are not allowed to access system configuration
+==============+

gksudo in command line works
$ gksudo date
Mon Oct 23 21:43:51 VET 2006

Here an strace attach
$ strace -o time-admin.strace time-asmin
in which the only error I see (my be an normal condition) is an resource unavailable reading /'var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket'

$? == 255

time-admin.strace lines 1426-1446/5790 byte 103094/403277 25%

$ gksudo time-admin
works but display warning messages

(time-admin:16141): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

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/usr/share/menu/gnome-system-tools does not has gksudo

?package(gnome-system-tools):needs="X11" section="Apps/System"\
  hints="Time"\
  title="Time Admin" command="/usr/bin/time-admin"\
  icon="/usr/share/gnome-system-tools/pixmaps/time.xpm"

packages which works like firestarter does has gksudo
$ cat firestarter
?package(firestarter):needs="X11" section="Apps/Net" \
 title="Firestarter" command="gksudo /usr/sbin/firestarter" \
 icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/firestarter.xpm"

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