i like to use kate to edit conf files. i tried to setup kdesu and thought i set it up correctly but when issuing kdesu kate /etc/dhcpd.conf nothing ever happens and then i have a defunct process of kdesu so to get around that i first switch user to root using su, then after i'm root i type in kate in my bash terminal and kate will crash the first time I try it but if i type in kate again it opens without crashing. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open konsole as normal user 2. switch user to root 3. type in kate and hit the enter key Actual Results: kate crashes and the kde crash handler opens. Expected Results: kate should open with root privileges allowing me to edit any file owned by root it may be important to note that I installed my arch system from another linux system using chroot and I choose to only install kdebase versus the entire KDE package. root has a ~/.profile file and within it i have export DISPLAY=:0.0 here's the output from the konsole terminal as well QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. kate(25209)/kdeui (kdelibs): Session bus not found To circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash) export $(dbus-launch) KCrash: Application 'kate' crashing... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit KCrash: Connect sock_file=/root/.kde4/socket-archytahr/kdeinit4__0 [1]+ Stopped kate
> kate(25209)/kdeui (kdelibs): Session bus not found There is your problem. KDE applications need a D-Bus session. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 282182 ***