679158 – Yast2 sometimes does not start from the menu

Bug 679158 - Yast2 sometimes does not start from the menu

Summary: Yast2 sometimes does not start from the menu

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 11.4
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version:	Final
Hardware:	Other Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal with 6 votes (vote)
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Reported:	2011-03-13 03:17 UTC by Ilya Chernykh
Modified:	2013-01-21 09:04 UTC (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Description Ilya Chernykh 2011-03-13 03:17:26 UTC

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; ru; rv:1.9.1.17) Gecko/20110121 SUSE/2.0.12-1.5 SeaMonkey/2.0.12

Yast2 sometimes does not start from the menu. With choosing the menu item (with package-manager --install %F command) nothing happens. After a second attempt Yast starts properly.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Ilya Chernykh 2011-03-13 18:01:51 UTC

I figured out that this happens not only with Yast but with any application started with xdg-su.

Comment 2 Kirill Gagarski 2011-03-15 11:09:07 UTC

Killing process '/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesud' helps for this on KDE.

Comment 3 Ilya Chernykh 2011-03-15 11:25:18 UTC

I do not have to kill the process, a second attempt usually just works.

Also I should note that I have this behavior under KDE3, and Kirill uses KDE4, though the issues can be related.

Comment 4 Christopher Yeleighton 2011-03-17 12:52:29 UTC

When I attempt to start YaST from my Computer menu, the computer asks me for Administrator password, and then nothing happens.  
When I run { su -c yast2; }, YaST starts all right.  I can use the desktop action afterwards.  However, installing software via KSuSEInstall still fails after the password.

Comment 5 Ilya Chernykh 2011-03-17 13:07:06 UTC

For me it happens differently: when Yast does not start I am NOT asked for password. If I am asked, Yast starts well.

Comment 6 Martin Seidler 2011-03-22 14:23:40 UTC

Could this bug be connected with:
Bug 681078 - xdg-utils: calling xdg-su inside "su -" fails
formerly known as:
Bug 681078 yast2-control-center-gnome: After zypper dup to 11.4, most of the (graphical) YaST modules do not start via YaST on GNOME
???
Regards
Martin
(pistazienfresser)

Comment 7 Flan Suse 2011-10-25 13:28:05 UTC

I have the same issue on 11.3, and now 11.4. I think it might be KDE-related, since the problem is bypassed if I manually kill the process: /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesud

Sometimes this process will remain, even after I log out and switch to runlevel 3. If I try to unmount /home, for example, it will tell me "/home is in use". The reason it says this is because of one process that has not terminated: /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesud

Comment 8 Christian Trippe 2013-01-21 09:04:07 UTC

I've never seen this problem with openSUSE 12.2 therefor I'll close the bug as WORKSFORME. If you still can reporduce it wiht 12.1 or later please reopen.