[opensuse] uddater applter kdesu problems and others

Opensuse updater no matter what version of kde keeps saying there is new packages to install. But it never installs. in kde 3.5 it gives me the kdesu password box, I enter, and it does nothing. Try again, nothing. in kde4 I get to the kdesu password box, and it craps out w/ a kdesu no reply from daemon erro.(see attached) -- Michael S. Dunsavage