[SOLVED] Kwrite crash

[phil66]

kwrite(12926): Session bus not found
To circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash)
export $(dbus-launch)

KCrash: Application 'kwrite' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/root/.kde4/socket-localhost/kdeinit4__0

[1]+ Stopped kwrite /etc/X11/xorg.conf

So that the file will open the dbus command has to be run everytime.
I have tried running other files and get the same error message

[doktor5000]

You can't run KDE apps easily as root, because that's what you are trying to do.
Use another editor for that, like mcedit (of Midnight Commander) on a terminal.

[sumski]

before you try to run gui apps as root type this as user:

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xhost +

[doktor5000]

This has nothing to do with X access controls, but with the fact the there is no dbus session running for the root user.
You see that above in the error message in the first line: "Session bus not found [...]" and kdeinit is not running for the root user.

One could try running it with kdesu, by doing it like this:

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/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu kwrite

[Ken-Bergen]

In a konsole use

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su -

for a full root environment.

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kwrite

will then work as expected.

[phil66]

Ken

The su - and kwrite works properly with no dbus-launch error

Thanks for the reply and the help

[maat]

Marking as solved