gkSudo fails with critical error

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Published on 2012-11-16T10:18:49Z Indexed on 2012/11/16 11:14 UTC
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I am trying to run gkSudo. This is my second day as a linux user.

Yesterday I could do

gksudo gedit

and input my root password fine.

Today, when i run that, the GUI comes up and ask's for my password, however then the program fails to run and all I get is:

(gksudo:3262): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_prefix: assertion `str != NULL' failed

I cannot sudo, I cannot su, i can't do anything. I am trying to add myself to the sudoers file but i can't even view it without being root. What can I do?

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