What have I done wrong?

This is beyond bizzar... :O

Everything is going fine and all of a sudden, apps which need the root password, like synaptic, return a wrong password error. WTF?

If I start the apps from a command line everything is hunky-dory....
WTF???

When I log into Gnome everything seem to be fine.
So how have I upset my beloved KDE?

 

I got the same behaviour while running kdesu to launch GTK apps (aka Synaptic) as root in KDE. When I do the same to native KDE apps (aka kpackage) it works fine. It may be a new bug, or else a change in the config. I'm still looking into it to be honest.

EDIT: It appears to be doing things the *ubuntu way! GAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! *** AT dies *** The new version of kdesu seems to be running sudo instead of su! WTF indeed! Obviously this won't work on a 'proper' Linux distro like Debian, with a correctly implemented root account.

 

Phewwww....

I started getting this after a big update....

Another weird behaviour is with gksudo.
When I try to start an app like EasyCam2 I get the attached warnning.
(Try to ignore the good looking bitch... :chk: )

Then gksudo will just hang and disappear.... :O

Do you think it is realted?

And oh yes, you are right I have no problems with KPackage :x:
I want my Synaptic though.... *snif*

Edit: WTF indeed!!! I cannot beleive I over looked it... SUDO??? Get the :swear: outta heaa!!!!!

 

Still looking into it, it seems like a really fresh bug with this latest update; still not sure if it's a Debian specific bug or if Ubuntu evil-ness has infected the whole Linux world with this stupid way of doing things. For now, you could launch Synaptic with the following command:

Code:

su-to-root -c synaptic

 

Strange, Sid doesn't have that Ubuntu-like sudo. I would have thought Sid would have it, since it is newer than Etch.

 

LOL

 

The way my system is setup, I have a real root account and sudo to only a few commonly-used commands. So when kdesu tries to launch a program, it does sudo instead of su and fails. Stupid. It may be a KDE-specific bug, but I didn't notice it until saba posted this thread -- I usually just run apt-get from CLI. Here's my simple update script, if anyone is interested:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
echo " ________________________________ "
echo "/ Checking for updated files...  \ "
echo "\________________________________/ "
apt-get update
echo " ________________________________ "
echo "/ Updating files if necessary... \ "
echo "\________________________________/ "
apt-get dist-upgrade
echo " ________________________________ "
echo "/           Finished.            \ "
echo "\________________________________/ "

EDIT: It is a KDE bug, and it seems to be fixed in Sid. You can either add a Sid update source temporarily and update kdebase-bin, or else wait for the changes to trickle down to Etch.

 

Solved'ish

The problem with the password has gone but gksudo still throws the warning.
I will see if anyone can help on the Debian forums....

Thanks again AT.
I actually took a whole load of updates from Sid, including a new Kernel.
Everything seem to be OK so far....

 

Well, daggumit... I was having the same problem and thought I broke something when i uninstalled Gnome or something. This thread is quite the relief.