Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mariusz Fik wrote:
> Dnia wtorek 09 czerwiec 2009 o 15:12:06 Dave Plater napisał(a):
>   
> > Hi, my kde4 is up to date and now I cannot get any programs that run as
> > root to start from the menu. The kde4 run command doesn't prompt for
> > root password nor does any menu item that is supposed to run as root
> > i.e. yast2. The only way I can get yast2 for example, to start is in
> > kde3 from the run command after entering the root password.
> > I can't get yast2 sw_single to start in kde4 konsole after issuing the
> > su command it just hangs but zypper works. Kde3s konsole works as
> > expected and both yast2 and yast2 sw_single work as expected. sudo
> > /sbin/yast2 starts the ncurses version in a user konsole in kde3, I
> > haven't tried sudo in kde4.
> > Any clues as to what package could have caused this?
> > Regards
> > Dave P
> >     
> To start GUI applications as root, login in terminal as root using "su -". 
> Then type root password and application name to run.
>   
As I stated in my original message that works I never use sudo only su,
my problem is menu items set to run as root no longer ask for the root
password and don't run.
Regards
Dave P
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