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| 518933 | 2007-01-24 19:20:00 | When I want to change a KDE desktop setting in SUSE I get "conversation with su failed" when I put my root tassword in.There was no problem a day or 2 ago and I can end session and log in as root no problem. | kjaada (253) | ||
| 518934 | 2007-01-24 21:20:00 | Did you have caps lock on? What happens if you run "kdesu kcontrol"? It should give you the KDE control centre in root-mode. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 518935 | 2007-01-24 22:04:00 | Which version of Suse Linux are you running? Is this through the KDE Control Panel? What exactly are you trying to do? Please give us more details to give us a decent chance of guessing what the problem may be. By the way, you should never log in to a full graphical environment as root unless you absolutely have to (which should never happen). It is considered bad practice as it is much easier to damage your system or breach good security practices. |
TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 518936 | 2007-01-24 22:42:00 | Version 10.2 and when (for instance as there are several scenarios) I want go to the clock menue and adjust date & time (it now says 11.18 and it is 11.25 and Auckland is set as the timezone ???) I now get a popup which is "Run as Root-KDE-su" and I put my password in then get the popup "Conversation with su failed." | kjaada (253) | ||
| 518937 | 2007-01-25 08:06:00 | It would be good if you could run a few tests to locate the problem. You will need to run all of these in a Konsole (K Menu -> System -> Terminal -> Konsole) window (or other terminal, but Konsole is the KDE default). First type "su" and enter you root password when prompted. If this works, you should see a prompt like: localhost:/home/user # Next type "exit" once to get back to your own prompt (the last character should be ">" for a normal user). Type "kdesu konsole" and enter your root password. This should run a second konsole window with the same root prompt you got for "su". If something went wrong in one of these, this should tell us something. If nothing went wrong then we will need to check a few more things. |
TGoddard (7263) | ||
| 518938 | 2007-01-25 17:58:00 | First part went OK. When I typed konsole tho the same popup window wanting my root password came up. I also noted that in the popup that comes up for the clock this is the comand. /opt/kde3/bin/kcmshell/kde-clock.desktop.....lang....en_US |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 518939 | 2007-01-26 15:57:00 | Bump | kjaada (253) | ||
| 518940 | 2007-01-26 21:01:00 | It is a known bug (bugzilla.novell.com) which has a status of resolved but I can't see in what update or anything. I see others had some success in by-passing this error in editing the sudoers config - see here (forums.suselinuxsupport.de). You need to use visudo to edit the sudoers file, so just run at a root prompt: visudo Once you have found the appropriate section, use the # to comment out those two lines. As this is vi, you have to use vi commands to edit the file. Arrow down to put the cursor at the start of the line and then push the 'i' key to change into insert mode. Now put the # character in and arrow down to the start of the second line and do the same (you are still in insert mode so no need to push 'i' again). Once done, hit ESC to exit insert mode. Check to make sure it looks OK and then type :wq to write and save the change when exiting (note use of colon). If you wish to exit the file without saving any changes, then use :q! example: #Defaults targetpw # ask for the password of the target user i.e. root #ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL # WARNING! Only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'! The sudoers file must be specific to SuSE as I took a look at mine and it doesn't have the section mentioned above. If this doesn't fix your problem, then run visudo again and remove the # from those two lines again. You delete stuff in vi by simply putting the cursor over the unwanted character and pushing the x key. Let us know how you get on. |
Jen (38) | ||
| 518941 | 2007-01-26 22:09:00 | Jen That worked 100% Since I dropped windows completly you have ALMOST replaced Speedy as my favourite person.Thanks once again. |
kjaada (253) | ||
| 518942 | 2007-01-26 22:13:00 | Jen That worked 100% Since I dropped windows completly you have ALMOST replaced Speedy as my favourite person.Thanks once again. lol well I would help, but since I haven't got Linux yet, and I'm not planning on getting it on dialup, I wouldn't be able to help anyway. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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