This bug is pretty annoying. I can edit config files by hand, but it's sometimes difficult to do, if you don't know exactly what to enter there...
Steps to reproduce: 1. Run KDE control centre 2. Select any module requiring administrator privileges (e.g. login manager) 3. Click on Administrator Mode button 4. Enter password into kdesu popup window, click OK Administrator mode is supposed to be activated, instead, initial KDE control centre screen appears. If I run: kdesu -u root -c "kcmshell kdm --embed 41945141 --lang en_US" from the console, for the first time, an error window pops up (see attachement). After clicking OK, administrator mode of chosen module is normally activated. Running from the console for the second time, with the same --embed parameter, no error window pops up and administrator mode is also normally activated. Not running dcopserver is not the case. See: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps ax | grep dcopserver 2209 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid For safety sake, I attach also my locale settings. Please, let me know, if you need any more testcases, or information. LANG= LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ LC_NUMERIC="POSIX" LC_TIME="POSIX" LC_COLLATE="POSIX" LC_MONETARY="POSIX" LC_MESSAGES="POSIX" LC_PAPER="POSIX" LC_NAME="POSIX" LC_ADDRESS="POSIX" LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX" LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX" LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX" LC_ALL= -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.7 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Versions of packages kcontrol depends on: ii kdebase-data 4:3.4.2-4 shared data files for the KDE base ii kdelibs4c2 4:3.4.2-4 core libraries for all KDE applica ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libaudio2 1.7-3 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-3 GCC support library ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libidn11 0.5.18-1 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.5-1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libraw1394-5 0.10.1-1.1 library for direct access to IEEE ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Session Management ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-2 SSL shared libraries ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.10a-21 userspace USB programming library ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System protocol client li ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Input extension li ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System multi-head display ii libxrandr2 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Resize, Rotate and ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Toolkit Intrinsics ii libxtst6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System event recording an ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Mesa 3D graphics library [X.Org] ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-6 compression library - runtime Versions of packages kcontrol recommends: ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-25 Linux Hotplug Scripts -- no debconf information -- Zzzzz |\ _,,,--,,_ "... a solitary cat." /,`.-'`' ._ \-;;,_ Katarína "Bubli" Machálková |,4- ) )_ .;.( `'-' http://www.bubli.org '---''(_/._)-'(_\_)
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