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Re: [opensuse-factory] Cannot run programs as root from kde3 or 4 menu (Solved but why did it happen?)
  • From: Dave Plater <dave.plater@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:43:09 +0200
  • Message-id: <4A2F721D.7080608@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Dave Plater wrote:
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

I'm no unix expert unfortunately so I need help to find out where this
problem came from. The only thing I changed that fixed the problem was
editing ~/.kde4/share/config/kdesurc. I have returned the file to it's
original state and even tried removing the blank eol (0x0D) at the end
of the file. The only other thing I did to my system was added relatime
to my fstab, is it possible this created the problem? I can no longer
recreate the bug. I am almost certain it didn't start after my last update.
Regards
Dave P
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