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Dale wrote: |
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> walt wrote: |
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>> On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>>>> Dale writes: |
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>>>>> Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know |
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>>>>> it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in |
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>>>>> KDE3. |
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>>>> It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and |
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>>>> after |
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>>>> becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X |
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>>>> applications. |
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>>>> I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past |
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>>>> I also |
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>>>> had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you |
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>>>> - I |
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>>>> don't know. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> Workarounds you might try: |
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>>>> - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past. |
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>>>> - ssh -Y root@localhost |
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>>>> Wonko |
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>>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password. |
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>> Does that mean you are not using the standard konsole, rather a special |
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>> icon intended to open a root terminal? Must be, otherwise it wouldn't |
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>> ask for the root password. |
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>> Try opening a standard user konsole and just use su instead. (Or even, |
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>> heaven forbid, an xterm instead of konsole.) That should detect a KDE |
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>> problem if it exists. |
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> |
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> The way I did was this. The entry you have but I edited it to run as |
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> root when it is clicked on. I have a couple things that are set that |
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> way. Kbackup is set that way. It can't access some files I want to |
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> backup if it is set to run as a user. You can edit this by clicking |
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> the advanced tab in the menu editor. I also have konqueror set as my |
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> file manager and it is set to run as root. It is running on another |
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> desktop right now. It works fine. I can run Kbackup, as root, and it |
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> connects just fine. I just tried it to make sure. Since I can go to |
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> my /root directory, I know it is running as root. |
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> |
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> Weird things always happen to me. Why can't something weird like |
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> winning the lottery happen to me? lol |
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> |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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> |
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OK. I finally fixed this so that it works. Naturally it was simple but |
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I wanted to share. ;-) Edit the menu item for konsole and on the line |
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where it says command, enter this: "konsole --profile root" Remove the |
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quotes of course. That is part one. Part two, open a console and |
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create a new profile named root. If you name it something else, edit |
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the line above to match. Then in the General tab in the box command, |
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type in "/bin/su -". Remove the quotes of course. Save everything. |
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Then when you click on it in the future, it will open as a user BUT it |
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asks for the root password. Then you can run programs and it find the |
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GUI. This has worked with kwrite and elogviewer so far. |
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Yea, this was driving me nuts. I knew this could work but had to figure |
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out how to make it work. The command to run was my light bulb moment. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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