[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2009-01-19 Thread Jonathan Thomas
** Changed in: kde-systemsettings (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2009-01-19 Thread Stephen on rock 3
I have a fix that works for me and makes complete sense: (my) problem was user was not in admin group (after creating new user then - silly me? - deleting previous user + files before logging out and back in. To add user to admin group withou any admin user available: Bootup with (K)Ubuntu cd and

Re: [Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-12-24 Thread Hugolino
Selon Jonathan Thomas: > Non-applicable for KDE4. > > [...] > ** Changed in: kde-systemsettings (Ubuntu) >Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix Oh! I'm glad to see I was right when I decided to switch back to Debian (Etch on my desktop and Lenny on my notebook), I've also just downloaded the 12.

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-12-23 Thread Jonathan Thomas
Non-applicable for KDE4. In Intrepid System Settings doesn't have a "root mode" but rather launches the various modules as root via kcm shell. Eventually we'll probably get some policykit goodness to ask for passwords within the app so that we don't need to use that hack, but for all intents and p

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-20 Thread heu
Richard: I reverted the hostname address to 127.0.1.1 and sysconfig (and kcontrol) is still working as it is supposed to so I guess that, even when in my case changing it to 127.0.0.1 helped to put sysconfig/kcontrol back on their feet, the problem is somewhere else (unless someone else has tried i

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-19 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
For what it is worth, I just checked my /etc/hosts file and found out that the first line was 127.0.0.1 localhost while the second line was 127.0.1.1 Perhaps the first line was a leftover from manually editing the file in some previous setup. I have now commented it out and will post here if t

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-18 Thread Richard
@heu: Perhaps you have a different variant of this problem. The default Ubuntu/Kubuntu setup is that your hostname has an entry for 127.0.1.1 in the /etc/hosts file, but it would be good if those who still have this problem can test this. Could you try reverting your hosts file to original setup,

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-18 Thread heu
my story: 1)everything was working fine on Feisty 2)upgraded to Gutsy (had to finish it from the shell). System Settings and everything was working alright. 3)upgraded KDE from 3.5.8 to 3.5.9 then everything requiring administrator mode stopped working. I wasnt even getting the prompt for my pas

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-17 Thread Richard
I don't have the problem any more, at present, so I can't test it. I did try kdesu and/or kdesudo on kcontrol before hitting on gksudo, and it didn't seem to clear things up at all. None of the other sudo options including plain 'sudo kcontrol' had the same effect of getting the DCOP connectio

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-17 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
It would be interesting to find out if kdesu kcontrol had the same beneficial effect: "DCOP Cleaning up dead connections." I cannot test this since I no longer have this problem, but I believe that the observation above from Richard holds the clue to the solution. -- Administrator button fail

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-17 Thread Richard
There are several more dupes of this bug I think: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-systemsettings/+bug/176518 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdesudo/+bug/182403 See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=133582 for another workaround (DCOP server restart) that worked fo

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-05-17 Thread Richard
I'm using Kubuntu Gutsy, fully updated, and have had this problem since upgrading from Feisty. One interesting workaround, though it does require gksudo, is to simply do: gksudo kcontrol. This generated the following konsole output: $ gksudo kcontrol kbuildsycoca running... ing new authority fil

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-04-17 Thread Stefan Bader
I captured the console message when systemsettings fails for the first time. I can confirm that 1. kill the root dcopserver created by systemsettings 2. run either manual network manager configuration or, at least it seemed to work once, call the restricted driver manager. After that it admin

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-04-17 Thread Stefan Bader
Hardy-Kubuntu-Desktop amd64 (CD of 2008-04-17.1) I have to see how the next installation case looks, but I got something pretty similar but without the second dcopserver running. Initial status was exactly as described before. The systemssettings dialogue would drop back to unprivileged mode af

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-04-17 Thread Ubuntu QA Website
** Tags added: iso-testing -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is subscribed to kde-systemsettings in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EM

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-04-17 Thread Ped
I have been toying around with the live session of Hardy pre-RC a bit more and I noticed this (steps to reproduce it): 1) I boot live CD 2) ps aux | grep dcopserver leads to: "ubuntu dcopserver [kdeinit] --nosid" Scenario 1 (bug): 3) I go into System Settings, go into Monitor & Display settings

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-04-17 Thread Ped
In my current Kubuntu 7.10 installation my /etc/hosts contains: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 somehostname But I have no problem to use Aministrator Mode in System Settings or kcontrol. But! Testing Hardy (Kubuntu Desktop i386 (20080417.1)) in live session (not installed) I can't turn the Adminis

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-04-01 Thread ikekrull
Interestingly, while trying to fix this, i found that it seems to be related to ip addressing/hostnames. As far as i can see, the name returned from 'hostname' must have an entry in /etc/hosts mapping it to 127.0.0.1 Setting this up returned my kcontrol administrator access. In my /etc/hosts fil

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-04-01 Thread ikekrull
I'm seeing this in Hardy Beta. Please, please, please fix this - its ridiculous that this isnt a critical showstopper bug. 'Medium' importance is a joke. In what parallel universe can you release a desktop distro to end users with a bug like this present? -- Administrator button fails to work i

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-03-23 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Out of curiosity, I just upgraded to KDE 3.5.9, simply to see if the problem went away, and it has. I wonder if this information can help track down the cause of this recalcitrant bug. Thanks. -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-03-12 Thread Richard Johnson
Confirming. Duplicate report found and added to this report. ** Changed in: kde-systemsettings (Ubuntu) Assignee: DaveThacker (dthacker9) => (unassigned) Status: Fix Released => Confirmed ** Changed in: kde-systemsettings (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium -- Administrator

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-03-09 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am sorry, the problem has returned. The administrator button in KDE Control Centre (kcontrol) does not work. When pressed, there is a "Loading" message and it hangs up after that. Clicking any other function after that causes the program, to abort. The workaround sudo kcontrol spews error mes

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-03-08 Thread Richard Johnson
I didn't know if recent fixes got backported or not, but from the sounds of it, they have. I am going to mark this as fix released, however if you believe this is still an issue, then I urge you to reopen this report. Thanks everyone! ** Changed in: kde-systemsettings (Ubuntu) Status: Incom

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-02-11 Thread al
This issue dissapeared for me also in my Kubuntu Gutsy amd64 installation. However, I had to format my amd64 partitions and install the 32 bit version of Kubuntu Gutsy for testing purposes. Once the CD install completed I ran `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade` and the administrator button problem

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-01-25 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
This problem disappeared as mysteriously as it arose. There are two possible reasons for this as far as I can see: 1. A recent update/upgrade using sudo apt-get update &&sudo apt-get upgrade flushed the problem out somehow. 2. The encoding was not set to default on konsole. This was noticeable

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-01-25 Thread Deathknell
Very new to Linux. I'm encountering similar, and additional problems. Fresh install, all I've done is an update with adept, though the problem presented before that. Apparently at random Klauncher stops working properly, and I can no longer run anything that needs it, which is apparently anythin

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2008-01-22 Thread al
Installed Kubuntu Gutsy amd64 from the live cd 2008-01-15 using safe mode. Selected English during the install. Ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. Installed NVIDIA restricted drivers from nvidia.com. Installed mad-wifi from source. Installed ndiswrapper Installed atheros wireless windows driver

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-26 Thread Eero Tamminen
> I installed it with English, pre-selected as default. > Typing locale at the console gives: > *** > LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 I just installed Kubuntu Gutsy from the i386 Desktop install CD (the image was verified, so that isn't a problem). Language for the installation was set to Finnish (fi_FI.UT

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-16 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dave, Please tell me what additional information you need me to provide and I will endeavour to do so. Thanks. Chandra -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
I am online just now and can furnish more info at short notice if you tell me what commands you want executed and what messages you need logged. Chandra -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-13 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Dave, I installed it with English, pre-selected as default. Typing locale at the console gives: *** LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NA

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-13 Thread DaveThacker
Need more info. ** Changed in: kde-systemsettings (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete ** Changed in: kde-systemsettings (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => DaveThacker (dthacker9) -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-13 Thread DaveThacker
Chandra, What language setting did you install Kubuntu with? Thanks! Dthacker -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu.

[Bug 175909] Re: Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol

2007-12-12 Thread R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar
Typing sudo kcontrol from the console enables administrator tasks to be accomplished. This is a workaround. There are error messages about uid being 1000 when it should be 0, but it works. kdesu kcontrol fails with error messages. This means that the system is usable now. -- Administrator bu