[PLUG] kdesu question

[logical american]

I recently upgraded from v42.3 of opensuse leap to the newer v15.0,
however under Plasma desktop, the kdesu command is hanging, thus trying
to bring up programs such as yast2 which requires root permissions fails.

I did go through the opensuse blog on this problem, but all the
suggested fixes haven't solved my problem yet.

How can I troubleshoot this annoying problem?

I can bring up the graphical yast2 by 2 commands: "su" and then "yast2"
once in at superuser privileges, however from user level typing "kdesu
yast2" fails and hangs up after the password is entered on that input
line in the pop-up box.

- Randall

[t***@gmail.com]

I must admit that I have tried kdesu yast2 for the first time.
It seems to work without problems on a few openSuse 15 boxes I have.

How do you start that kdesu yast2 command? If you try that from command
prompt, do you get any error messages?

What is the difference between typing kdesu yast2 and su yast2? Two
characters less using su the way I see it.

Tomas

Post by logical american
I recently upgraded from v42.3 of opensuse leap to the newer v15.0,
however under Plasma desktop, the kdesu command is hanging, thus trying
to bring up programs such as yast2 which requires root permissions fails.
I did go through the opensuse blog on this problem, but all the
suggested fixes haven't solved my problem yet.
How can I troubleshoot this annoying problem?
I can bring up the graphical yast2 by 2 commands: "su" and then "yast2"
once in at superuser privileges, however from user level typing "kdesu
yast2" fails and hangs up after the password is entered on that input
line in the pop-up box.
- Randall
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[logical american]

Post by t***@gmail.com
I must admit that I have tried kdesu yast2 for the first time.
It seems to work without problems on a few openSuse 15 boxes I have.

When I first upgraded from Leap 42.3 to Leap 15.0, kdesu ran just fine.
But after adding some software archives, then updating those, the
problem appeared.

I built several of the desktops, then rebuild plasma (for kde) and kdesu
worked okay again. But then I did a "zypper dup" command, and after that
kdesu failed again.

Post by t***@gmail.com
How do you start that kdesu yast2 command? If you try that from command
prompt, do you get any error messages?

From the command line: %kdesu yast2
I get the pop-up box, enter the password and everything hangs.
In the command line terminal, the word: kdesu_stub appears on the next
line down, and hangs

Post by t***@gmail.com
What is the difference between typing kdesu yast2 and su yast2? Two
characters less using su the way I see it.

Yes, but I was simply using the prebuilt yast2 icon which should work
automatically.
I can type in the command line
%su
%yast2
on 2 separate lines, and everything is fine.

I guess I could hack the yast2 icon on the task bar and fix this
manually, until the next upgrade, then start all over again.

Thank you for your questions