On Tuesday 09 June 2009 08:43:27 Dave Plater wrote:
Yast2 software management will not run from kde4 at all. Yast2 control center starts from a root konsole but I can't start software management from control center either. The log hangs at:- 2009-06-09 15:36:27 <1> Arbuthnot(4317) [ui] YUI.cc(YUI):62 Creating UI with threads Any ideas what to file a bug report against? Yast2 software management runs under kde3. Regards Dave P
Dave, I have fought this from 2 different directions. See my post (this list) of earlier today: Passwordless Access to Apps for Admins: sudo or kdesu for 11.2/kde4. Check your .kde4/share/config/kdesurc and make sure it doesn't contain anything other than: 18:01 alchemy:~> cat .kde4/share/config/kdesurc [Passwords] Keep=true If it does, kdesu will behave very strange. With this setting I can access yast2, just by clicking on the yast icon and I get the prompt for the password: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/kde4/screenshots/kdesu-yas... OK.jpeg However, it is annoying to be constantly prompted for the root password for every admin task and there should be some way of configuring kdesu to check group policies, etc.. so that access is given to those that need it (ME in particular). I do use sudo from the command line and I had resisted to temptation to set super-user to sudo for kde4 hoping to find a way to make kdesu work, but the only way I have to giving myself root access to all admin tasks without being prompted for a password is to use the old kwriteconfig had typed into a terminal as a normal user that modifies your .kde4/share/config/kdesurc. After setting up sudo as normal, issuing: kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user- command sudo Modifies kdesurc as follows: 20:57 alchemy:~> cat .kde4/share/config/kdesurc [Passwords] Keep=true [super-user-command] super-user-command=sudo In this configuration, you get root access to all of your admin tasks (except in kde control center where I think the code is still completely missing...) I don't know what the "right" answer is. Everyone says not to use sudo, but nobody has fixed kdesu. A rather sticky wicket... -- 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-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org