Kate crashes when run with sudo command

[KubuntUser]

kate crashes when run with the sudo command. It does not crash when run from the menu as normal user. Here is the message I got when I tried to run kate as sudo
sudo kate
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-chandra" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Creating link /root/.kde/cache-kubuntu.
Created link from "/root/.kde/cache-kubuntu" to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
kate: ERROR: Communication problem with kate, it probably crashed.

I tried the same command with kwrite and it did not crash.
sudo kwrite
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-chandra" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"

[Hirs]

Re: Kate crashes when run with sudo command

This happened to me too, surprisingly works fine with kedit.
The work around is to use kdesu kate

[olwin]

Re: Kate crashes when run with sudo command

This bug is correct for kde 3.5 :
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107048

[claydoh]

Re: Kate crashes when run with sudo command

You can still use kate, but use 'kdesu' instead of 'sudo', kate jsut likes to have a gui passord box I guess