Bug 377528 - KDE su Run as root Window Hangs Entering Admin Password in Standard User Session
Summary: KDE su Run as root Window Hangs Entering Admin Password in Standard User Session
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kdesu
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Neon Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdesu bugs tracker
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Reported: 2017-03-12 18:50 UTC by 13hurdw
Modified: 2022-09-02 14:35 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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KDE su Window Hangs Trying to Run partitionmanager (21.63 KB, image/png)
2017-03-12 18:50 UTC, 13hurdw
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Description 13hurdw 2017-03-12 18:50:41 UTC
Created attachment 104522 [details]
KDE su Window Hangs Trying to Run partitionmanager

KDE neon LTS User Edition 5.8
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/kf5/kdesu 5.8.6

To reproduce:
Install partitionmanager (at version 3.0.1)
Run partitionmanager from application launcher or terminal in an unprivileged user session
In the KDE su dialog that comes up, enter the privileged administrative user's password and click OK button.

Expected:
Clicking OK should cause a password check and execute the given command if the password provided matches the privileged admin user password.

Actual:
KDE su window hangs without executing the program, the OK button stays highlighted. Attempting to close the kdesu window results in a Application "kdesu" is not responding message window.
Comment 1 13hurdw 2017-06-05 21:36:23 UTC
Still an issue with kdesu 5.8.7
Comment 2 13hurdw 2018-09-11 15:21:47 UTC
KDE 5.13.5

Still hangs after configuring kdesu to use sudo (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sudo#kdesu) and entering admin sudo user password.

This is possibly a duplicate of bug #389049
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2019-01-21 23:51:57 UTC
Does it only hang when you enter the wrong password? Or also when you enter the right password?
Comment 4 13hurdw 2019-01-22 03:28:48 UTC
This was entering the correct password for the privileged user.
Comment 5 Patrick Silva 2019-03-25 15:50:43 UTC
cannot confirm on Arch Linux with partition manager 3.3.1 after configuring kdesu to use sudo as mentioned in the link from comment 2
Comment 6 Andrius Štikonas 2019-09-07 10:17:15 UTC
How much do we care about this now that partittionmanager does not use kdesu?