Bug 707817

Summary:	kdesu will not start application
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Forgotten User KSYEYC9iJz <forgotten_KSYEYC9iJz>
Component:	KDE4 Applications	Assignee:	E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Factory
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Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Description Forgotten User KSYEYC9iJz 2011-07-23 00:17:46 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/4.6; Linux) KHTML/4.6.5 (like Gecko) SUSE

kdesu will not start the application asked for. Asks for password and then returns to user command line. Application does not start.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. on user terminal enter kdesu dolphin, or kate or click on desktop widget for  KSystemLog.
2. Enter root password and press enter
3. Popup for password disappears 
Actual Results:  
After password is entered, pop up goes away and cursor is back at command line. Application never starts. 

Expected Results:  
Should have started application dolphin, or kate or open KSystemLog Gui.

openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 3 - 3.0.0-rc7-2 also fails on  openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 3 - 3.0.0-rc6-2 and it worked on 2.6.39-2-desktop.
KDE Platform Version 4.6.5 (4.6.5)
Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ,|8GB DDR3|GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.19)

Problem appears very simular to 165268 and 511480 reported for 11.0, 10.3 and other distros.

 bug 165268 comment #19  executing comman kdesu dbus-launch dolphin work and dolphin starts up.

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2011-10-12 09:51:48 UTC

fixed in dbus-1, hopefully

Comment 2 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-10-12 10:00:08 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (707817) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/87485 Factory / dbus-1

Comment 3 Bernhard Wiedemann 2011-10-12 11:00:08 UTC

This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (707817) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/87487 Factory / dbus-1

Comment 4 Swamp Workflow Management 2012-10-31 15:10:51 UTC

openSUSE-SU-2012:1418-1: An update that solves 6 vulnerabilities and has 5 fixes is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 381621,394383,428963,432901,437293,443307,503074,697105,707817,743149,783657
CVE References: CVE-2006-6107,CVE-2008-0595,CVE-2008-3834,CVE-2008-4311,CVE-2010-4352,CVE-2012-3524
Sources used:
openSUSE 12.2 (src):    dbus-1-1.5.12-4.10.1, dbus-1-x11-1.5.12-4.10.1
openSUSE 12.1 (src):    dbus-1-1.5.8-2.10.1, dbus-1-x11-1.5.8-2.10.1
openSUSE 11.4 (src):    dbus-1-1.4.1-7.31.1, dbus-1-x11-1.4.1-7.31.1