* Malte Gell [02-26-14 05:35]:

Hi there,

when I try to run a command as root within my KDE session, kdesu does not work, it simply does not do anything.

I invoke this command: kdesu -u root -c /sbin/yast2

But, nothing, happens, no error message, nothing.

The same happens with xdg-su, xdg-su -u root -c /sbin/yast2 does nothing, no error message, just nothing.

both work here, openSUSE Tw what happens when you su to root in a terminal and run /sbin/yast2 or can you even su to root? can you start *anything* as root? could you ever run the commands you site?

What could be broken there?

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Am 26.02.2014 13:48, schrieb Patrick Shanahan:

what happens when you su to root in a terminal and run /sbin/yast2 or can you even su to root?

su works, I can su to root and run yast2 without problems...

can you start *anything* as root?

Yes, I can use su in konsole.

could you ever run the commands you site?

I had this issue some time ago with openSUSE 12.3, I think I logged off KDE, logged in again and the problem was gone. The issue occured again a few days ago. At the weekend I installed openSUSE 13.1 and kdesu just worked. Yesterday it stopped working. Malte -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* Malte Gell [02-26-14 11:42]:

...

Am 26.02.2014 13:48, schrieb Patrick Shanahan:

...

what happens when you su to root in a terminal and run /sbin/yast2 or can you even su to root?

su works, I can su to root and run yast2 without problems...

...

can you start *anything* as root?

Yes, I can use su in konsole.

...

could you ever run the commands you site?

I had this issue some time ago with openSUSE 12.3, I think I logged off KDE, logged in again and the problem was gone. The issue occured again a few days ago. At the weekend I installed openSUSE 13.1 and kdesu just worked. Yesterday it stopped working.

So you logged out and back in to test ??

You tried in konsole and xterm: su - and then: yast2

Honestly, when you have succeeded before and offer that information, why wouldn't you try again or at least report that it didn't work. All pertinent information narrows the problem.

All of which makes me think... KDE was updated in the regular security/patch updates and was not restarted (either logout/login or system restart... either works). If KDE is updated without restarting the window manager, lots of little odd things start to happen like kdesu won't work, or file picker dialogs won't open in KDE apps. C -- openSUSE 13.1 x86_64, KDE 4.12 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org