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

[Richard]

I'm using Kubuntu Gutsy, fully updated, and have had this problem since
upgrading from Feisty.

One interesting workaround, though it does require gksudo, is to simply
do: gksudo kcontrol.  This generated the following konsole output:

$ gksudo kcontrol
kbuildsycoca running...
ing new authority file /root/.ICEauthority
DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: _attachPty() 12
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
$

The 'cleaning up dead connections' part looks interesting....  After
doing this, the root-owned dcopserver was gone, but more importantly,
future use of kcontrol from the normal menus just works - e.g. on the
Login Manager tool within Kcontrol, the Administrator Mode works
(doesn't prompt as the sudo is established I guess.)

Not sure if I will need to re-do the gksudo invocation every time the
sudo credentials run out, but since "gksudo kcontrol" could be put in
the KDE menus it may be a better workaround than using Konsole.  I would
still really like to see a fix though.

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Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909
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