Fred A. Miller pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

Jim Flanagan wrote:

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I'm not sure which one, but a recent update seems to have killed Admin mode in KDE on 10.3. Clicking the Admin Mode button in any control center window shows the red ring, but the thing hangs forever. Not sure exactly when or why, but I noticed this after todays updates, on 3 different 10.3 installs. Any clues?

Yep......does the same thing on my 64-bit laptop...don't know about any others yet. I checked this on the font installer.

Same problem here on 10.3 32 bit. Just a stab in the dark, perhaps the SSH update from yesterday? -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Ken Schneider wrote:

Fred A. Miller pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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Jim Flanagan wrote:

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I'm not sure which one, but a recent update seems to have killed Admin mode in KDE on 10.3. Clicking the Admin Mode button in any control center window shows the red ring, but the thing hangs forever. Not sure exactly when or why, but I noticed this after todays updates, on 3 different 10.3 installs. Any clues?

Yep......does the same thing on my 64-bit laptop...don't know about any others yet. I checked this on the font installer.

Same problem here on 10.3 32 bit. Just a stab in the dark, perhaps the SSH update from yesterday?

At first stab, "I don't think so". To test, I just opened control center, confirmed it worked and then closed it. Then I did a zypper up that installed: openssh-4.6p1-58.3_58.6.i586.delta.rpm openssh-askpass-4.6p1-58.3_58.6.i586.delta.rpm Then I opened up control center again and it worked without issue. I haven't restarted kdm yet, so we shall see... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Ken Schneider wrote:

David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote:

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Then I opened up control center again and it worked without issue. I haven't restarted kdm yet, so we shall see...

The error wasn't in opening control center, it was invoking admin mode while in control center. Are you saying that you are not having problems with admin mode?

Negative. I always have problems with Admin mode, well before the update. It hangs on "enter root password" and you can't sudo the control center an make Admin work either. As mentioned in my other post, the only way I get admin to work is to start kde as "root", then admin mode works fine. PITA, but it works fine ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

russbucket wrote:

Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Jim Flanagan wrote:

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I'm not sure which one, but a recent update seems to have killed Admin mode in KDE on 10.3. Clicking the Admin Mode button in any control center window shows the red ring, but the thing hangs forever. Not sure exactly when or why, but I noticed this after todays updates, on 3 different 10.3 installs. Any clues? Yep......does the same thing on my 64-bit laptop...don't know about any others yet. I checked this on the font installer.

I'm also having problem with the font installer just hanging.

That has been happening for a while. There is a bug in the "administrator mode" authentication that asks for the root password. You can't "sudo kcmshell fonts" either. The only way I have gotten around this is to actually start a kde session as root and then do the font install. I hope somebody is working this issue..... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Felix Miata wrote:

On 2008/04/10 16:56 (GMT-0500) David C. Rankin apparently typed:

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There is a bug in the "administrator mode" authentication that asks for the root password. You can't "sudo kcmshell fonts" either. The only way I have gotten around this is to actually start a kde session as root and then do the font install.

Easier to open a root shell in Konsole to kcmshell fonts, no?

Yep, much easier, thanks Felix. The font install is also a much needed one: # kcmshell kcmfontinst And for the quick list of all possible modules: # kcmshell --list Added another arrow to my quiver today -- now if I could just remember them all. Thank goodness for "basket" a/k/a "kbasket" to install the rpm. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Peter J. P-N wrote:

Nevertheless I though that 'kdesu kcmshell fonts' will work 'kcmshell fonts' is working here, but it doesn't so.

The only way to get the root rights on KDE control here is by 'kdesu kcontrol'

Dang, this is great, I leaned 3 new things today. Thanks Peter! -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Thursday 10 April 2008 04:56:55 pm David C. Rankin wrote:

russbucket wrote:

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Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Jim Flanagan wrote:

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I'm not sure which one, but a recent update seems to have killed Admin mode in KDE on 10.3. Clicking the Admin Mode button in any control center window shows the red ring, but the thing hangs forever. Not sure exactly when or why, but I noticed this after todays updates, on 3 different 10.3 installs. Any clues?

Yep......does the same thing on my 64-bit laptop...don't know about any others yet. I checked this on the font installer.

I'm also having problem with the font installer just hanging.

That has been happening for a while. There is a bug in the "administrator mode" authentication that asks for the root password. You can't "sudo kcmshell fonts" either. The only way I have gotten around this is to actually start a kde session as root and then do the font install.

I hope somebody is working this issue.....

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=355374 is considered fixed. Check the KDE 3 version that you use. Also related http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2008-04/msg00798.html -- Regards, Rajko http://en.opensuse.org/Portal needs helpful hands. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:

On Thursday 10 April 2008, David C. Rankin said:

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That has been happening for a while. There is a bug in the "administrator mode" authentication that asks for the root password. You can't "sudo kcmshell fonts" either. The only way I have gotten around this is to actually start a kde session as root and then do the font install.

I hope somebody is working this issue.....

Is there a bug report? If we don't know about it, we won't fix it...

WIll

You hereby admit to knowing about it. ;-) But if you follow the thread, you will see it was reported to Novel's bugzilla, so you should hear about it soon unless it was suse speific. -- ----------JSA--------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org