Bug 466132

Summary: kdeinit unable to launch apps from a kdesu dolphin session
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.1 Reporter: Forgotten User Drfk9mafMw <forgotten_Drfk9mafMw>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Other   
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Description Forgotten User Drfk9mafMw 2009-01-14 18:17:34 UTC 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121300 SUSE/3.0.5-1.1 Firefox/3.0.5

Launching other apps from a super user dolphin session (kdesu dolphin) is not possible and only produces a graphical popup:

"KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/ark'."

A similar behavior is observed when e.g. dolphin is started from a shell:

mader@santenay:~> su - doe
Password:
doe@santenay:~> dolphin
dolphin(30044): Attempt to use QAction "close_tab" with KXMLGUIFactory!
dolphin(30044): Attempt to use QAction "show_info_panel" with KXMLGUIFactory!
dolphin(30044): Attempt to use QAction "show_folders_panel" with KXMLGUIFactory!
dolphin(30044): Attempt to use QAction "show_terminal_panel" with KXMLGUIFactory!
dolphin(30044): Attempt to use QAction "show_places_panel" with KXMLGUIFactory!
doe@santenay:~> kdeinit4: preparing to launch
No protocol specified
: cannot connect to X server :0.0
No protocol specified
No protocol specified
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/okular
No protocol specified
okular: cannot connect to X server :0.0

So as it seems there is something wrong with the permissions to use the running Xsession...

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Forgotten User Drfk9mafMw 2009-01-14 18:23:07 UTC 
closing as duplicate

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 450203 ***