[SOLVED] kdesudo - bug report filed

[Snowhog]

I've filed a bug report on the problem with kdesudo.

[ubuntuku]

Re: kdesudo - bug report filed

yeah I really hate this bug .. it drives me nuts

[vinnywright]

Re: kdesudo - bug report filed

added my 2 cents worth

VINNY

[Snowhog]

Re: kdesudo - bug report filed

Well, tested kdesudo dolphin just a second ago, and it works again. Dolphin launches in root mode and all places are navigable as one would expect.

[vinnywright]

Re: kdesudo - bug report filed

Well, tested kdesudo dolphin just a second ago, and it works again. Dolphin launches in root mode and all places are navigable as one would expect.

?? ??

my'n still broken

and I had just run a update/dist-upgrade ?

VINNY

[Snowhog]

Re: [RESOLVED] kdesudo - bug report filed

Dang! Just tried it again, and I get "The processes for the file protocol died unexpectedly." error - again. So, not resolved after all. No idea why it worked last night and not now. Hmm. :P

[Snowhog]

Re: [RESOLVED - NOT] kdesudo - bug report filed

Still not resolved after the upgrade to KDE 4.4.1 tonight.

[Fintan]

Re: [RESOLVED - NOT] kdesudo - bug report filed

Same here on KK KDE4.4.1 > will try Lucid later.

Edit: No go on lucid either after todays updates >

[wizard10000]

Re: [RESOLVED - NOT] kdesudo - bug report filed

The problem is also bugged on Launchpad several times. If you guys haven't found it already there's a workaround - I don't like it much but it works.

gksudo dbus-launch application-name

[Rog131]

Re: [RESOLVED - NOT] kdesudo - bug report filed

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> Bug #506361: kdesudo - process for the file protocol died unexpectedly
This is marked "invalid" as the Jonathan Thomas wrote on 2010-02-15:

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. But don't worry! This issue is being tracked by the KDE developers at: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165268
Once fixed in KDE, it will be included in Kubuntu once the KDE version the fix is in in reaches Kubuntu.

Thanks!

> Bug 165268 - Dolphin, launched by command "kdesu dolphin" does not work.


Words of power

There are more than one way to skin the Dolphin

[img width=400 height=199]http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/9930/sudoing.png[/img]

Here (Lucid - alpha3) the:

kdesudo 'dbus-launch dolphin --nofork'

seems to do the trick.

After the Dolphin (root-mode) has been succesfully launched once the:

kdesudo dolphin

is working again.


man dbus-launch

NAME
dbus-launch - Utility to start a message bus from a shell script

SYNOPSIS
dbus-launch [--version] [--sh-syntax] [--csh-syntax] [--auto-syntax] [--exit-with-session] [--autolaunch=MACHINEID] [--config- file=FILENAME] [PROGRAM] [ARGS...]

DESCRIPTION
The dbus-launch command is used to start a session bus instance of dbus-daemon from a shell script. It would normally be called from a user's login scripts.

gksu/gksudo

Package: gksu

graphical frontend to su

gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells
and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It
is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need
to ask a user's password to run another program as another user.

non-recomends installation:

sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends gksu
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gksu libgksu2-0 libgtop2-7 libgtop2-common
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
...

kdesu

(It is not working better than the kdesudo with the Lucid - alpha3)


> HaraldSitter/Kde4/kdesudo:

KDESudo vs. KDESu with sudo

Status quo

In KDE 3 we use a home made application called KDESudo, which enables proper sudo usage for root authentification. KDESu in 4 however does an equal good job with sudo.

Proposal

Instead of reinventing the wheel (i.e. port KDESudo to KDE 4) we should help KDE improve KDESu's sudo support for KDE 4.1. This would probably only be resolving some issue and adding the application icon to the password dialog.

> HOWTO - get kdesu back to normal in KDE4

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/bin/kdesu

Update

> Topic: kdesu Work-Around (another)

[Fintan]

Re: [RESOLVED - NOT] kdesudo - bug report filed

Here (Lucid - alpha3) the:

kdesudo 'dbus-launch dolphin --nofork'

seems to do the trick.

After the Dolphin (root-mode) has been succesfully launched once the:

kdesudo dolphin

is working again.

Not working here.
Latest update: yesterday

[Snowhog]

Re: [RESOLVED - NOT] kdesudo - bug report filed

Well, I tried:

kdesudo 'dbus-launch dolphin --nofork'

and Dolphin launched correctly, and in root mode without the "The processes for the file protocol died unexpectedly." error. Closing Dolphin and the re-launching it with:

kdesudo dolphin

still results in the "The processes for the file protocol died unexpectedly." error.

At least I have a way to launch dolphin in root mode with this tip. Not a fix to the problem, but is a suitable temporary work-around.

[vinnywright]

Re: [RESOLVED - NOT] kdesudo - bug report filed

+1 with Snowhog

I get the same resaluts...............but ya thats a nice workaround.

VINNY

[Snowhog]

Re: [RESOLVED - NOT] kdesudo - bug report filed

To save typing, I copied the menu entry for Dolphin, renamed it (Dolphin - Root) and modified the Command entry with:

kdesudo 'dbus-launch dolphin --nofork' %i -caption "%c" %u

Saved and quit the editor. Then I added this new Dolphin menu item to my Favorites.

[Snowhog]

Re: [RESOLVED - NOT] kdesudo - bug report filed

Rec'd today from my bug reported bugs.kde.org:

[Bug 227134] kdesudo [application] results in protocol death
From: "Markus S." <kamikazow@web.de>
To: snowhog@mtaonline.net

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227134





--- Comment #5 from Markus S. <kamikazow web de> 2010-03-07 03:52:03 ---
kdesudo is not an official KDE program, but a Kubuntu one. I suggest that you
report the bug at the proper place: https://launchpad.net/kdesudo
And then please close this bug as RESOLVED -> UPSTREAM or whatever.

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Funny isn't it? He (Mark S.) says it isn't a KDE problem, and says to report it on launchpad, yet Jonathan Thomas says it is a KDE problem! :P

This is marked "invalid" as the Jonathan Thomas wrote on 2010-02-15:

Hi,

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. But don't worry! This issue is being tracked by the KDE developers at: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165268
Once fixed in KDE, it will be included in Kubuntu once the KDE version the fix is in in reaches Kubuntu.

Thanks!