Bug 502058

Summary: su in terminal can not start kwrite
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Forgotten User d3bkfIx-vJ <forgotten_d3bkfIx-vJ>
Component: KDE4 ApplicationsAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: ctrippe, forgotten_bSWU20Bh6O, forgotten_vXTZVacoSi
Version: Milestone 1   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: Other   
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Description Forgotten User d3bkfIx-vJ 2009-05-08 07:10:42 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.2; Linux) KHTML/4.2.2 (like Gecko) SUSE

Hi,

in a konsole when I log in as su I can not start kwrite.

Thanks
Karl

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open konsole in KDE
2.su   and password
3.kwrite
Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
kwrite should open
Comment 1 Forgotten User bSWU20Bh6O 2009-05-16 04:54:40 UTC 
You need to use kdesu to lauch applications as a substitute user.
Comment 2 Forgotten User d3bkfIx-vJ 2009-05-19 08:39:00 UTC 
This has always been working since I use SuSE. I don't understand why this should not work anymore under 11.2.
Is there any reason to break this feature?
Comment 3 Forgotten User d3bkfIx-vJ 2009-05-19 08:40:19 UTC 
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Comment 4 Forgotten User vXTZVacoSi 2009-05-19 14:13:20 UTC 
Sounds like 'su' alone doesn't set the respective X-cookie, 'su -' certainly does, would this be sufficient for you?
Comment 5 Christian Trippe 2009-05-19 18:59:55 UTC 
Maybe this is related to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482749
Comment 6 Forgotten User d3bkfIx-vJ 2009-05-20 10:05:30 UTC 
'su -' works. I can launch KDE applications (dolphin, konqueror, kwrite...)

I'ld like to know if this behaviour ('su' doesn't work, 'su -' works) is on purpose, or if this is a bug that needs to be fixed for the 11.2 release?

Thanks
Comment 7 Forgotten User d3bkfIx-vJ 2009-05-20 10:09:37 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Maybe this is related to https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482749

I don't think it's related, my YaST2 works just fine, and they talk about some extra update from some repository that I don't have done.
Comment 8 Lubos Lunak 2009-07-30 14:28:58 UTC 
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 514056 ***