Try to run partitionmanager from commandline, get a kdesu prompt, enter password, get an error Sorry KDE su: Cannot execute command /usr/bin/partitionmanager-bin --dontsu click "OK" Then see a warning about not running with administrative privledges. $ rpm -q kde-partitionmanager kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-5.20120130svn.fc16.x86_64
I have reported this upstream, because it seems to me a bug in the way partitionmanager decide how run itself. Running as regular user is redirect to the --dontsu option, but somehow it does this in a buggy way that triggers kdesu prompt anyway. If you run from commandline directly with --dontsu option this doesn't happen. However in this way there's no way to run partitionmanager in a useful way: running as regular user triggers the --dontsu option, running as root user the program doesn't start. The only way is to run it from menu entry until upstream solves the bug.
This is turning out as quite a fight between partitionmanager and kdesu developers... ;-) For the moment it is possibile to run from commandline using either kdesu partitionmanager-bin --dontsu or kdesu -c "partitionmanager-bin --dontsu" I will let this bug open until someone (eventually) wins the fight and either change how partitionmanager invoke kdesu or ho kdesu interpret arguments passed to executable.
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-5.20120205svn.fc16 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 16. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-5.20120205svn.fc16
Package kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-5.20120205svn.fc16: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 16 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-5.20120205svn.fc16' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-1367/kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-5.20120205svn.fc16 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
kde-partitionmanager-1.0.3-5.20120205svn.fc16 has been pushed to the Fedora 16 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.