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
Run yast2 sw_single as root with "strace -s 256 -f yast2 sw_single" and see if it hangs at the same place mine does. I have had this error since the last zypper dup a few days before Milestone1 became available and it's still there on all boxes at Milestone 2 ++. I have an unresolved open bug 487060 on this. It's not only yast2, it's other applications also like VirtualBox and qjackctl. The strange thing is I can "ssh -X" in over the network and run them as root without problems. There are also bugs 458230 and 400834 that have flavours of this. <STUFF DELETED> [pid 27779] read(14, "", 2048) = 0 [pid 27779] close(14) = 0 [pid 27779] futex(0x13d576c, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 1, NULL Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org