Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (904 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Kaiser wrote:
> Doctor Who wrote:
> > Well, right now I cannot even do simple things like change the clock
> > on the system because of the apparent permissions error.  I can get
> > openSUSE updater to show me all available updates, but i cannot update
> > either because of this issue.
>
> I have the same problem with (almost?) everything that needs root privs 
> in KDE, I get "su returned with an error" instead of the usual window 
> for entering the root password. Same if I go to "execute" in the KDE 
> menu and try launching anything via kdesu.
> I've been following Factory with frequent updates and this has been 
> happening for some time now. I thought it might be a general failure 
> that would be fixed soon, but it seems to persist atm.
> BTW, I just wondered if having both KDE3 and KDE4 installed might be the 
> problem, but "which kdesu" from a console tells me it uses the KDE3 one, 
> which should be correct (I'm running KDE3 here until KDE4 is mature 
> enough to deal with me).
>
> Robert Kaiser
>
>
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I had the exact same problem a few months ago, after a kde3 factory update. I can vaguely remember uninstalling 
everything relating to sudo and then reinstalling, which I think solved the problem. If you search the opensuse list 
archives you should find the thread.
Regards
Dave P
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