Bug 434624

Summary:	Administrator Mode Not Working In KDE Control Center
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gerald Cox <gbcox>
Component:	kdebase	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	8	CC:	fedora, gvarisco, kevin, ltinkl, mefoster, mike.cloaked, rdieter
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Fixed In Version:	kdebase-3.5.9-3.fc8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Gerald Cox 2008-02-23 15:14:37 UTC

Description of problem:

Trying to activate Administrator mode within KDE Control Center to change KDE
Theme Manager and Login Manager.  When pressing "Administrator Mode" buttom,
receive popup "Run as root - KDE Su"; command "/usr/bin/kcmshell kdmtheme
--embed 58722095 --lan en_US" - when I enter the password, the popup goes away,
but nothing appears to happen.  Then when I logoff/login I receive another
message that this command needs the root password...I then enter, but again
nothing happens.

If I login as root, I am able to modify - however, I would prefer not to login
as root.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdebase-3.5.8-32.fc8


How reproducible:
See description above.


Steps to Reproduce:

See description above.
  
Actual results:
Nothing happens.


Expected results:
Enter administrative mode in KDE Theme Manager and Login Manager.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Lukáš Tinkl 2008-02-25 13:24:23 UTC

Confirmed

Comment 2 Lukáš Tinkl 2008-02-25 16:44:02 UTC

*** Bug 431835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Mary Ellen Foster 2008-02-26 15:30:52 UTC

This seems to WORKFORME in kdebase-3.5.9-1.fc8, except that I get a popup after
entering the root password about being unable to create
/usr/local/share/apps/kdm/faces.

Comment 4 Mary Ellen Foster 2008-02-26 15:40:23 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I get a popup [ ... ] about being unable to create
> /usr/local/share/apps/kdm/faces.

This is, of course, bug 379781.

Comment 5 Gianluca Varisco 2008-03-23 11:37:01 UTC

Hi Mary Ellen,

bug 379781 has been closed as 'NOTABUG': see the comments on it for more details.

Regarding this bug, it WORKSFORME in kdebase-3.5.9-5.fc8. I'd say that we can
consider this bug closed, but before proceed I'd like to receive your feedback.

Comment 6 Mike C 2008-03-23 11:47:47 UTC

With the current version it works fine for me, though it may be worth mentioning
that some settings are not acted upon unless UseTheme=false is set in
/etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc

I am not the reporter of this bug but perhaps this helps before this bz is closed.

Comment 7 Gerald Cox 2008-03-24 09:44:28 UTC

Not sure exactly when this was corrected, but it is working fine now in 
kdebase-3.5.9-3.fc8