Public bug reported:
Package: kubuntu-17.10-desktop-amd64.iso
step 1:
Starting dolphin from the menu fails - kdesu starts to accept password, but
then Dolphin does not open.
three attempts to start dolphin from the command line:
step 2:
wolf@wolf-desktop:~$ kdesu dolphin
kdesu: command not found
as per man file, this is because kdesu is not in the path
step 3:
wolf@wolf-desktop:~$ /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu dolphin
Executing Dolphin as root is not possible.
/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu is a link that ultimately points to kdesudo
step 4:
wolf@wolf-desktop:~$ /usr/bin/kdesudo dolphin
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such
file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/wolf/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
Executing Dolphin as root is not possible.
Here I gave up, as the likely next steps are beyond my ability.
Other observations:
Since my system contains about a dozen partitions, I need to manually modify
fstab and /media to define which partitions are mounted at start-up, and which
are mounted only upon request. I do this by assigning unique labels to each
partition, since UUID's are not human-readable. Since a label can be assigned
to 17.10 only from another installation of 17.10 and not from an older
installation such as e.g. 16.4, because of some code changes needed for
e2label, I have also tried to directly copy the changes to fstab and /media
from another installation. This copying action made the whole 17.10 unusable -
the commandline is available, but the x-system needs starting manually, and
there is also no network access.
wolf
** Affects: dolphin (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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dolphin does not start as root
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