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Can't Adjust Date & Time In Clock On Kicker Panel

Bug #20154 reported by Buford T. Justice on 2005-08-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #15001: Administrator mode not working. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kdeaddons (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Medium	Jonathan Riddell

Bug Description

I have experienced this problem numerous times using Kubuntu 5.04 Linux after
numerous reinstalls. I have not updated, downloaded, or installed anything new.
I use to be able to...

1) Right-click once on the clock on the kicker panel.
2) Left-click once on "Adjust Date & Time".
3) Enter my root password.
4) Click OK.
5) Adjust Date & Time.

Now I can never adjust the date & time after I enter my root password.

I have tried removing the clock from kicker and then adding it again but I still
cannot change the date & time.

Once I installed "kworldclock" and I was then able to adjust the date & time,
but it later stopped working again only to start working again once I removed
"kworldclock".

Also, I keep getting a DCOP Communications Error after I try adjusting the clock...

"There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The
message returned by the system was:

Authentication Rejected, reason: None of the authentication protocols specified
are supported and host-based authentication failed

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!"

I am not sure what that means but it may be related. If I go to Kynaptic and
search for "dcopserver" nothing is found that is called that.

Kubuntu 5.04 comes with KDE 3.4.0. I upgraded to KDE 3.4.2 hoping that would
fix the problem but it did not.

Thanks,
BTJustice

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P (p92) wrote on 2005-08-21:

#1

do you have xauth installed ?

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Buford T. Justice (btjustice) wrote on 2005-08-21:

#2

My guess would have to be no. If I go to Kynaptic and try to find xauth, nothing is found.

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P (p92) wrote on 2005-08-22:

#3

# dpkg -l xauth
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii xauth 1.0.0-1 X authentication utility

if you dont have it :
sudo apt-get install xauth

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Buford T. Justice (btjustice) wrote on 2005-08-23:

#4

btjustice@Kubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install xauth
Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xauth

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P (p92) wrote on 2005-08-23:

#5

did you update your sources before ?
sudo apt-get update

what it the content of /etc/apt/sources.list

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Buford T. Justice (btjustice) wrote on 2005-08-23:

#6

Of course I updated my list. I am reluctant to get anything from the universe
sources as items from that are not officially supported...

http://paste.ubuntulinux.nl/1535

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P (p92) wrote on 2005-08-24:

#7

Ho sorry, you are on Hoary.I wrongly understood you got kde 3.4.2 by upgrading to breezy.
Do you have the xauth command ? I don't know the package where it is on hoary.

Try to execute it from the user command line.
if it works, what gives the list subcommand ?

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Buford T. Justice (btjustice) wrote on 2005-08-24:

#8

btjustice@Kubuntu:~$ xauth
Using authority file /home/btjustice/.Xauthority
xauth>

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P (p92) wrote on 2005-08-24:

#9

btjustice@Kubuntu:~$ xauth
Using authority file /home/btjustice/.Xauthority
xauth>

Ok so I repeat : if it works, what gives the list subcommand ?

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Buford T. Justice (btjustice) wrote on 2005-08-24:

#10

How should I know how to bring it up? You tell me.

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P (p92) wrote on 2005-08-24:

#11

when you have this :

btjustice@Kubuntu:~$ xauth
Using authority file /home/btjustice/.Xauthority
xauth>

type list + ENTER ...

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Buford T. Justice (btjustice) wrote on 2005-08-24:

#12

btjustice@Kubuntu:~$ xauth
Using authority file /home/btjustice/.Xauthority
xauth> list
192.168.1.104:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 a0baf03d68ade9ec175fa62b21499b1f
[fe80::20f:3dff:feaa:4e63]:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 a0baf03d68ade9ec175fa62b21499b1f
Kubuntu/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 a0baf03d68ade9ec175fa62b21499b1f
192.168.1.103:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 30d21ff63909e03dcf1916be7ab7179d
xauth>

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Klaus D. Günther (k-d-guenther) wrote on 2005-09-14:

#13

I seem to have essentially the same problem with Kubuntu 5.04. To be more
specific: If I have entered my password in the password-entry panel and click
"OK", then the panel disappears and nothing else happens thereafter. If I click
"Ignore" instead of "OK", then the date/time adjustment panel pops up, but is
still disabled. If I click the administrator priviledges button, then the
interior of the panel is replaced by a white rectangle with fat red border. So I
still cannot adjust date and time. If I close the panel, then a KDE crash report
pops up.

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P (p92) wrote on 2005-09-15:

#14

it's working perfectly here. maybe check it if works better with a fresh new kde user.

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote on 2005-09-18:

#15

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