kdesu is not working as expected

[knightron]

Hello everyone. I've recently decided to install Mageia 5 to see if i like it. I've been using it for about five days now and mostly things are working nicely. A very nice distro.
It hasn't been without issues though. I am having an issue with kdesu. I have been searching for the last day trying to find a solution but have had no luck, so now here i am asking for help.

This is not consistent behaviour and i have not isolated the variable cause yet.
When i launch kdesu, eg: "/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kdesu dolphin", the password prompt displays. I enter my password, the prompt disappears as if i entered the correct password and then no window is displayed.
Within the console i am given this message twice.

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kdesu(5306)/kdesu (kdelibs) KDESu::KDESuPrivate::KCookie::getXCookie: No X authentication info set for display ":0"

Does anyone have any suggestions on how i may fix this issue.

Thanks.

[doktor5000]

Hi there,

just tested the way you described and dolphin starts fine here, konsole gives exactly no output after running kdesu.
You should probably report that as a bug, after searching if it hasn't been reported yet already: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly
For completeness's sake and also to allow others to follow up on that bug report, please also post the link to it here in the thread, thanks.