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
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 ...
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?
i *think* this is the same ... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 208979 ***