Kdesudo not working anymore ?

[kdeuser]

Hi,

Kdesudo command that enables you to run as root , all of a sudden doesn`t work.

I need to be root in order to copy files from Desktop to one of the drives.



Thanks for your help.

[sithlord48]

you may have a stale .Xauthority file try removing it

sudo rm ~/.Xauthority

for that first error about your host name you may also want to check that your host name is set correctly .. check /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts files and be sure they have matching names.

edit: you might also have to remove /root/.Xauthority . this file might not exist it don't on my computer

[kubicle]

Have you changed your hostname recently?
Does your hostname match in files /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts?

EDIT: redundant post

[kdeuser]

I made some screens as they say more than me.









Hard drive problems too , below fstab print :



Don`t know too much here but Reelbox looks like is in hosts and hostnames , plus made a print of /home . Seems there`s no .XAuthority.

[kdeuser]

.......and another error on trying to open `kate` to look at fstab :



Opened Nautilus (as root) but no hd1 drive ?



If it helps , i am on Precise 12.04.5 LTS .

[kubicle]

Don`t know too much here but Reelbox looks like is in hosts and hostnames.

Reelbox is in /etc/hosts, but that line does not have correct syntax (IP_address canonical_hostname [aliases...]):

so "localhost 127.0.1.1 ReelBox" should be "127.0.1.1 ReelBox" (remove localhost from the beginning of the line)

Since you do not have sudo functionality to edit, you'll need to boot into recovery mode to edit the file. In the recovery console, you can use nano to edit "nano /etc/hosts" (Ctrl+o to save).

[kdeuser]

Booted into recovery mode , however, , unable to save as on (ctrl+o) system prints readonly .

Unable to save .

Leaves me nowhere really. I do not know what`s happening here.

[sithlord48]

does your system have any issues mounting / ? if so it will mount in read only mode (as per your fstab) . dmesg is a good place to look for them

[kubicle]

unable to save as on (ctrl+o) system prints readonly.

The recovery mode (root shell option) mounts the root filesystem as readonly. Sorry for the omission.
You can remount it readwrite with:

mount -o remount,rw /

[kdeuser]

Just made a fresh install and unable to write to hosts but can run sudo. Must be something innate to this particular os - note , i am running a modified kubuntu.

Ran dmesg and below is the readout :

 2.664034] ata2.00: ATA-8: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0, 51.0AB51, max UDMA/133
[    2.664038] ata2.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[    2.664041] ata2.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[    2.665242] ata4.00: ATA-8: ST32000542AS, CC34, max UDMA/133
[    2.665245] ata4.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
[    2.665249] ata4.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[    2.666642] ata4.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[    2.666645] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    2.668017] ata2.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[    2.668020] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    2.688853] ata1.00: ATA-8: TOSHIBA MQ01ABD050, AX001A, max UDMA/100
[    2.688856] ata1.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[    2.688859] ata1.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[    2.690489] ata1.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[    2.690492] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[    2.690608] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      TOSHIBA MQ01ABD0 AX00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    2.690832] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[    2.690835] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks
[    2.690893] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[    2.690897] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    2.690922] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    2.691148] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[    2.691366] scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD20EARS-00M 51.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    2.691508] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[    2.691592] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB)
[    2.691647] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[    2.691651] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    2.691677] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    2.746112]  sdb: sdb1
[    2.746413] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[    2.772040] ata3: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[    2.777610] ata3.00: ATA-8: WDC WD30EZRS-00J99B0, 80.00A80, max UDMA/133
[    2.777614] ata3.00: 5860533168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
[    2.777618] ata3.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[    2.783610] ata3.00: SB600 AHCI: limiting to 255 sectors per cmd
[    2.783613] ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133
[    2.783722] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      WDC WD30EZRS-00J 80.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    2.783895] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[    2.784050] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST32000542AS     CC34 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    2.784185] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[    2.784382] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] 3907029168 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB)
[    2.784437] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[    2.784441] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    2.784469] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 5860533168 512-byte logical blocks: (3.00 TB/2.72 TiB)
[    2.784472] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 4096-byte physical blocks
[    2.784496] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    2.784610] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[    2.784613] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[    2.784638] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[    2.791674] scsi 4:0:1:0: CD-ROM            Optiarc  DVD RW AD-7630A  1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    2.799889]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
[    2.800306] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    2.803556] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[    2.803559] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    2.803668] sr 4:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[    2.803824] sr 4:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 5
[    2.834989]  sdd: sdd1
[    2.835285] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
[    2.867735]  sdc: sdc1
[    2.867987] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
[    8.712213] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[   11.309684] init: ureadahead main process (274) terminated with status 5
[   12.245964] Adding 1023996k swap on /dev/sda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1023996k 
[   12.862775] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[   13.866787] EXT2-fs (sda4): warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
[   13.946126] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536
[   14.707476] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   14.707485] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[   14.960069] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
[   14.960074] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[   14.960076] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[   14.960078] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[   14.973559] udevd[540]: starting version 175
[   15.047506] FS-Cache: Loaded
[   15.103201] FS-Cache: Netfs 'nfs' registered for caching
[   15.320952] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
[   15.915508] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[   16.194007] init: idmapd main process (568) terminated with status 1
[   16.194043] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.306130] init: idmapd main process (582) terminated with status 1
[   16.306166] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.327430] init: idmapd main process (594) terminated with status 1
[   16.327467] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.349722] init: idmapd main process (606) terminated with status 1
[   16.349758] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.370993] init: idmapd main process (618) terminated with status 1
[   16.371029] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.395327] init: idmapd main process (630) terminated with status 1
[   16.395363] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.416346] init: idmapd main process (642) terminated with status 1
[   16.416383] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.434868] w83627ehf: Found W83627DHG chip at 0xa10
[   16.497633] init: idmapd main process (656) terminated with status 1
[   16.497669] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.520200] init: idmapd main process (668) terminated with status 1
[   16.520237] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.542794] init: idmapd main process (680) terminated with status 1
[   16.542830] init: idmapd main process ended, respawning
[   16.554753] hdshm_init_struct: Phys start f3000000, start f9280000, nc-start f9600000
[   16.689892] init: idmapd main process (692) terminated with status 1
[   16.689928] init: idmapd respawning too fast, stopped
[   17.818325] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[   18.218431] wmi: Mapper loaded
[   18.276463] k8temp 0000:00:18.3: Temperature readouts might be wrong - check erratum #141
[   18.279521] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: SMBus Host Controller at 0xb00, revision 0
[   18.340085] piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Auxiliary SMBus Host Controller at 0xb10
[   18.575745] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[   18.866178] sp5100_tco: SP5100/SB800 TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v0.05
[   18.866300] sp5100_tco: PCI Revision ID: 0x14
[   18.866320] sp5100_tco: failed to find MMIO address, giving up.
[   18.967769] type=1400 audit(1421185101.864:2): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" pid=720 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   18.968438] type=1400 audit(1421185101.868:3): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=720 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   19.104576] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16
[   19.104676] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   19.104679] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   19.104689] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   19.104692] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   19.104699] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   19.153844] microcode: AMD CPU family 0xf not supported
[   19.222136] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   19.222153] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   19.222155] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[   19.266159] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   19.266164] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   19.266174] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   19.276393] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   19.337239] ath5k 0000:02:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[   19.784404] hda_codec: ALC888: SKU not ready 0x00000100
[   19.812655] input: HDA ATI SB Line as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card0/input4
[   19.812988] input: HDA ATI SB Rear Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card0/input5
[   19.813352] input: HDA ATI SB Line Out Front as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.2/sound/card0/input6
[   19.817969] hda_intel: Disabling MSI
[   19.817980] hda-intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle VGA-switcheroo audio client
[   19.865102] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[   19.865108] cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[   19.865111] cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[   19.865114] cfg80211:   (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[   19.865116] cfg80211:   (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[   19.865118] cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[   19.865121] cfg80211:   (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[   19.946884] type=1400 audit(1421185102.844:4): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=1061 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   19.947405] type=1400 audit(1421185102.844:5): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=1061 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   19.947703] type=1400 audit(1421185102.844:6): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=1061 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   19.948498] type=1400 audit(1421185102.848:7): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=1064 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   19.949016] type=1400 audit(1421185102.848:8): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=1064 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   19.949315] type=1400 audit(1421185102.848:9): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=1064 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   19.949927] type=1400 audit(1421185102.848:10): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=1065 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   19.950443] type=1400 audit(1421185102.848:11): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=1065 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   20.034994] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x30
[   20.034999] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[   20.035002] ath: Country alpha2 being used: AM
[   20.035004] ath: Regpair used: 0x30
[   20.261089] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[   20.262129] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: AM
[   20.262721] ath5k: phy0: Atheros AR5414 chip found (MAC: 0xa1, PHY: 0x61)
[   20.291233] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: AM
[   20.291238] cfg80211:   (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[   20.291241] cfg80211:   (2402000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
[   20.291244] cfg80211:   (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (N/A, 1800 mBm)
[   20.291246] cfg80211:   (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (N/A, 1800 mBm)
[   20.525847] init: failsafe main process (1085) killed by TERM signal
[   20.700316] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=9 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input7
[   20.700564] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=8 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input8
[   20.700785] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=7 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input9
[   20.701004] input: HDA NVidia HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:01:00.1/sound/card1/input10
[   23.735851] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   23.736240] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   23.753300] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
[   23.753312] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link down
[   23.753398] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   23.754103] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[   23.781288] r8169 0000:05:00.0 eth1: link down
[   23.781299] r8169 0000:05:00.0 eth1: link down
[   23.781360] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[   23.782041] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready
[   25.376873] r8169 0000:05:00.0 eth1: link up
[   25.376885] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
[   25.522646] audit_printk_skb: 3 callbacks suppressed
[   25.522652] type=1400 audit(1421185108.420:13): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=1355 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   25.523184] type=1400 audit(1421185108.420:14): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=1355 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   25.523487] type=1400 audit(1421185108.420:15): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=1355 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   25.530825] type=1400 audit(1421185108.428:16): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf" pid=1357 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   25.531463] type=1400 audit(1421185108.428:17): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/sbin/cupsd" pid=1357 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   25.558056] type=1400 audit(1421185108.456:18): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/mysqld" pid=1358 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   25.582493] type=1400 audit(1421185108.480:19): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi" pid=1359 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   25.582811] type=1400 audit(1421185108.480:20): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi///usr/sbin/mysqld" pid=1359 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   25.611509] type=1400 audit(1421185108.508:21): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/sbin/tcpdump" pid=1361 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   25.868682] r8169 0000:04:00.0 eth0: link up
[   25.868694] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   26.094455] type=1400 audit(1421185108.992:22): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/usr/sbin/mysqld" pid=1465 comm="apparmor_parser"
[   31.223325] NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
[   31.249132] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period (net c1929040)
[   37.776405] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (2455) terminated with status 1
[   50.686061] input: Reelbox Frontpanel Part I (VDR-Mode) as /devices/virtual/input/input11
[   66.979718] type=1400 audit(1421185149.878:23): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=3296 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi///usr/sbin/mysqld" name="/media/hd/home/reel/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf" pid=3299 comm="mysqld" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
[   67.136933] type=1400 audit(1421185150.038:24): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=3302 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi///usr/sbin/mysqld" name="/media/hd/home/reel/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf" pid=3304 comm="mysqld" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
[   67.232249] type=1400 audit(1421185150.134:25): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=3307 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi///usr/sbin/mysqld" name="/media/hd/home/reel/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf" pid=3309 comm="mysqld" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
[   67.346271] type=1400 audit(1421185150.246:26): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=3312 profile="/usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi///usr/sbin/mysqld" name="/media/hd/home/reel/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf" pid=3315 comm="mysqld" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
reel@ReelBox:~$

I should mention that my mother board has 4 sata inputs , all of which have a drive attached.

The first is a 500 gb os drive, second and third are 2 tb drives , ending with a 3 tb one. The last drive strangely, refuses to mount and is not in fstab.