systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

[maestrobwh1]

Installed with the KDE4 live CD - 7.10 Gusty

I can't seem to find much help with this. There is a post on ubuntu, but no resolution:

:~$ kdesudo systemsettings-kde4
passprompt


QMutex::lock: Deadlock detected in thread -1236322624

Password prompt pops up, accepts it, then I get this.

Everything else works in kdesudo mode.

Are there plans to implement "Administrator Mode" on this panel?

Anything that requires root is greyed out.

Is this normal so far? I know this is still experiential.

I did several things apt-get update/upgraded, purged, reinstalled kde4.

[marcj]

Re: systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

Same problem here.

Is there an alternative way of altering the KDE4 system settings?

[Fredh]

Re: systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

Well at least you can start sysconfig-kde4. I HH mine doesn't start up where by in GG it does.

[marcj]

Re: systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

What's sysconfig-kde4?

I don't have anything that's called sysconfig-kde4 in kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon.

[Fredh]

Re: systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

Sorry, this is what I meant: systemsettings-kde4. Mine is in german

[Rog131]

Re: systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

Well known (?) bug

Is this workaround ?
Bug #184407 in meta-kde4 / Can't launch programs as root https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...e4/+bug/184407

Can be launched in root mode by navigating to /usr/lib/.kde4/ and clicking "systemsettings-kde4" using the root mode of the file manager.

Waiting 4.0.1:

Topic: KDE 4 future releases
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090578.0

[maestrobwh1]

Re: systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

Same problem here.

Is there an alternative way of altering the KDE4 system settings?

I did find how to get root priv:

Open file manager in root mode (it is in the menu), go to /usr/lib/kde4/bin and click "systemsettings"

Or, install Krusader file manager (apt-get install krusader) and launch that in root mode (it installs a regular and a root mode shortcut icon in your menu), navigate to /usr/bin and type in the command box at the bottom of krusader and type systemsettings-kde4 (apparently this is just a bash script to activate systemsettings in /usr/lib/kde4/bin rather than the systemsettings for kde3 if you have that installed also)

At any rate, these work.

[Guest]

Re: systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

In konsole:
sudo passwd root
Enter password for root
Confirm password for root

Change AllowRootLogin=false to AllowRootLogin=true in kdmrc.
In konsole:
sudo vi /usr/lib/kde4/etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc

There you have the solution.

[PhilT]

Re: systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

I got around this by opening a konsole and typing: sudo kcontrol
This gave me root access to the control centre.

[maestrobwh1]

Re: systemsettings-kde4: anyone have root access? Help!

And there alas is the damned numlock issue in kde4 as well. It is also in that file that states "false" even though in systemsettings, I have it set to "true" BUT it would not turn on so I had to install numlockx and fix it that way. I manually changed this to "true" as well as changing the root issue.