Bug 245710

Summary: kdesu stopps launching programs
Product: [Applications] kdesu Reporter: anton <benderamp>
Component: kdesudAssignee: kdesu bugs tracker <kdesu-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
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Description anton 2010-07-25 08:19:16 UTC 
Version:           unspecified
OS:                Linux

KDE 4.4.95 from opensuse 11.3

This happens irregulary, but rather often, saw this on rather old kde versions from 4.x. 

kdesu stopps launching programs - for example run yast from krunner/kickoff and just nothing happens, though it should ask for password.

"ps -A | grep kdesu" gives long list of "kdesu" processes and one "kdesud". 

Running "kdesu kwrite" (or "kdesu yast") from console does nothing - nothing happens after that - no output to console or any other activity, and this command does not release console (ctrl+c kills the command).

Did "killall -9 kdesud" and started "kdesu kwrite" after that - things began to work again (and kdesud was automatically restarted).

Reproducible: Sometimes
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-07-27 12:39:45 UTC 
are you sure you are not using a kdesu from kde 3? in an upstream installation, kdesu from kde 4 is not in the PATH. somewhat unlikely idea, but still ...
Comment 2 anton 2010-07-27 14:54:57 UTC 
no, it's from kde4.5 rc2 installation

> which kdesu
/usr/bin/kdesu
> rpm -qf /usr/bin/kdesu
kdebase4-runtime-4.4.95-222.1.x86_64

by the way, what is the reason to remove kdesu from path?
Comment 3 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-11-07 00:12:16 UTC 
i *think* this is the same ...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 208979 ***