kdesudo crash startup bug

[tgpraveen]

Get these two error msgs when i start up. pls help.

"You will not be able to apply any any changes. But you can still export the marked changes or create a download script for them."

and one which says kdesudo crashed or something like that. help plz.

[nowshining]

Re: kdesudo crash startup bug

what ver. of KDE are u running?

[tgpraveen]

Re: kdesudo crash startup bug

rite should have mentioned that before.
i am running kubuntu 8.04 with kde 4.0.03

actually this problem started after i was installing some software using synaptic and that got stuck in middle then i had to reboot and then i gfot these errors.

[Fintan]

Re: kdesudo crash startup bug

Synaptic hasn't been very reliable on kde4 for quite some time.

I used to update/grad or install with synaptic a lot and since a while synaptic would hang. So I would logg out and log back in.
Do:

sudo apt-get update

and

sudo apt-get upgrade

in a terminal.

to make sure everything was alright.

Since then I use adept (with apprehension) and it seams to work fine.

Have you tried this form recovery mode:

dpkg --configure -a

apt-get clean

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

Then reinstall kdesudo :

apt-get install kdesudo

either from the prompt or with startx from the prompt
and the gui and a terminal?

[tgpraveen]

Re: kdesudo crash startup bug

when i try ur above written commands in terminal i get following msg

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

this happens when i am logged in the only account on my system which has root priveleges it used to ask for password previously it used to in terminal rite.

[tgpraveen]

Re: kdesudo crash startup bug

the eroor msg that i get when my system starts up is

No command arguments supplied!
Usage: kdesudo [-u <runas>] <command>
KdeSudo will now exit..


and then synaptic opens