[Bug 175909] Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

Wed Dec 12 16:42:24 UTC 2007

Public bug reported:

This bug is identical to:

Bug #15001, first reported on 2005-04-05  by  Aric Wilisch
Administrator mode not working

and solved that year. It has re-surfaced and has also been reported
again by Rohan Dhruva on 30 Nov 07. I can confirm what he has siad at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/15001

but am reporting it as new because the older bug is closed.

It happened out of teh blue on a fresk Kubuntu Gutsy installation.
Action taken included completely re-installing Kubuntu and also

sudo apt-get install --reinstall kcontrol kde-systemsettings

neither of which has helped.

Running either systemsettings or kcontrol from the konsole and clicking
"Administrator Mode" for "Network Setings" does nothing but the console
error messages are:

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It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure
that it is not already running, remove /root/.DCOPserver_kaveri__0
and start dcopserver again.
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WARNING: Waiting for already running klauncher to exit.

WARNING: Another instance of klauncher is already running!

kdeinit: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!

kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!

kcmshell (kdelibs): WARNING: Could not find module 'kcm_knetworkconfmodule'.
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Could this bug be treated as serious and a workaround suggested please?

Removing /var/tmp/kdecache-<username> and  kdecache-root does not help

Thank you.

** Affects: kde-systemsettings (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol
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