This bug happened to me twice so far, but I cannot reproduce it reliably either.
My system: Kubuntu 6.10, recently updated. It happened in the System Settings, trying to get into Admin Mode. I installed kdelibs-dbg and kdebase-dbg and attached gdb to the kdesu process that seemed to hang. The kdesu command line was: /usr/bin/kdesu --nonewdcop --n kcmshell System/userconfig --embed 41945746 --lang de The backtrace was: (gdb) bt #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7a3fb43 in read () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #2 0xb7bd160a in PtyProcess::readLine (this=0xbfd58ff4, block=true) at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.5/./kdesu/process.cpp:218 #3 0xb7bd61cd in StubProcess::ConverseStub (this=0xbfd58ff4, check=0) at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.5/./kdesu/stub.cpp:85 #4 0xb7bd9194 in SuProcess::exec (this=0xbfd58ff4, password=0x0, check=0) at /build/buildd/kdelibs-3.5.5/./kdesu/su.cpp:198 #5 0x08050053 in main (argc=-1208796089, argv=0xbfd58b80) at /build/buildd/kdebase-3.5.5/./kdesu/kdesu/kdesu.cpp:422 #6 0xb79978cc in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #7 0x0804e001 in _start () I hope that helps. -- kdesu will not start apps https://launchpad.net/bugs/50971 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs