On checking kcontol (used kdesu) I noticed that several services although marked to start on boot were not running (Sudo is the main concern here) I confirned this in bash by ps aux |grep "sudo". Trying to start these services in kcontrol only involve a long wait looking a dailog which says starting service (but never does). Im currently using su- in bash to proform system admin But would like sudo to work as well as a few other services. pppd for one as I cant use dailup at the moment Yes I have the correct registed driver which fails after connecting with a pppd error code of 1 which I believe is related to to the pppd service not running. Any ideas on how to correct these misbehaving services. I have posted in the ubuntu support forums as of yet with cure Thank you in advance

Sudo doesn't rely on a service to work. Just make sure you have added yourself to /etc/sudoers. What happens if you type: $ sudo ls

ok thanks for that. Yes I have added my self to the sudoers file but for some reason sudo will not work in kde (gui) but works ok in bash. I mean if I use adminstrator mode in any of the kde applets that asks for my Password ( I presume that this using sudo to acheive the task)IT gives no error message but I am still denied access to make changes.If I use the root password it gives incorrect password message.

ill try that sudo ls and post back