On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:50:59 -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 00:52:47 +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I cannot validate root password when using a 'KDE su' (meaning ie. cannot
> >> start synaptic from the KDE menu under a non-root account)
> >>
> >> However the same root password is accepted via other way, ie. 'su root'
> >> typed
> >> in a normal user console
> >>
> >> Something broken with my 'KDE su' as it was working previously ?
> >> Keyboard setup mismatch ?
> >> Hard to check 'KDE su' character map as characters are (logically) hidden.
> >>
> >
> > Are you using Etch? If so, make sure that kdebase, kdebase-bin and
> > kdelibs4c2a are up to date, i.e. from KDE 3.5.5 and not 3.5.4.
> >
> > If you cannot get Synaptic to work then you can use the command
> >
> > dpkg -l kdebase{,-bin} kdelibs4c2a
> >
> >
> Same here; kdesu prompts for the root password then bails when trying
> to start synaptic, kpackage, file-manager_as_root, etc. This started
> several days ago after an 'apt-get update' and continues through an
> update I did last night which appears to have updated all the kdelibs
> installed on this machine. I haven't found a solution yet. (Also,
> entering user password has no effect)
>
> $> uname -a
> Linux rocinante 2.6.18 #1 PREEMPT Mon Oct 23 23:31:50 CDT 2006 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> After last nights 'apt-get update' -> debian etch testing. kdebase
> 4:3.5.4-2, kdebase-bin 4:3.5.4-2+b1, kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a-1, kdeadmin
> 4:3.5.5-1, kde-core 5:4.7.
Maybe your mirror is outdated. I use ftp.nl.debian.org and the new
versions of kdebase and kdebase-bin are listed in testing now. In any
case you can download the two packages directly from
http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/k/kdebase/
and install them with "dpkg -i".
--
Regards,
Florian
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