kdesu sometimes fails to start

CollieJim · 12-26-2010, 12:11 AM

I have an intermittent problem with kdesu not starting. I can boot and start kde4 and kdesu will perform properly for the full session. If I reboot, there is a chance kdesu will not work at all that session. Yesterday just restarting KDE4 was sufficient to get it back, but today it took two machine reboots.

When it fails it just hangs with no indication and nothing in /var/log/messages.

I had no problems with the previous kernel, 2.6.34-gentoo-r6. I just moved to 2.6.34-gentoo-r12 adding nfs.

Any thoughts?
TIA

andrewthomas · 12-26-2010, 12:37 AM

I would try to reemerge kdesu and then a revdep-rebuild.

I just don't see how this could be a problem with the kernel.

You also could possibly be affected by this bug:

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304213

CollieJim · 12-26-2010, 01:06 AM

Thanks. That appears to have worked. Time will tell.

andrewthomas · 12-26-2010, 06:58 AM

Glad to be of help.

CollieJim · 02-06-2011, 06:38 AM

Back again.
I still have the problem. It occurs when I exit KDE and restart it sometimes.

It appears that communication with kdesud is the problem. If the problem occurs and I kill kdesud, then kdesu starts working again.