Version: 1.6 (using KDE 3.5.1 Level "a" , SUSE 10.1) Compiler: Target: x86_64-suse-linux OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.16.21-0.25-default Konsole has fatal problems starting some of its sessions, specifically those which require arguments for the command to run for this particular konsole session. In konsole->settings->configure konsole->session tab->general:execute many arguments are not accepted. For example it is impossible to start a super user konsole session (e.g. by holding click on the new tab icon and selecting Root Shell) because the command to execute is "su -" or "su -l". This produces a command argument error inside konsole (start konsole from a shell to see its stderr output) and the session window never opens. However, changing the command to "env su -l" works fine. Several other default commands shipped with konsole fail as well, likewise many of those I enter myself. I can't see a pattern in the commands that fail vs those that don't. This problem exists with 10.2 GM, as well as 10.1 with current updates. I'm pretty sure it did not exist with 10.1 boxed media, and was introduced with one of the KDE updates. Problem exists with both i386 and x86_64. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230793
Hello Volker, Could you provide the stderr output you get when running Konsole from a shell? There is a problem on my PC as well, but this is caused by the use of sudo rather than su in the Ubuntu distributions. Can you list those commands which do work vs. those that do not?
Closing this report for now as there has not been a response to comment #1
Sorry, I totally forgot about this. I just tried this again with openSUSE 10.3 current updates, and the commands su -l sux - sux - user2 all work as expected in a console sesion, with the login shell either bash or tcsh.