Comment 32 for bug 15001

I just ran into the same problem here: Freshly installed kubuntu some days ago. System was not changed much, no
additional packets installed, just some configuration had been done. The administrator mode in kcontrol worked
fine until it suddenly stopped working with the symptoms described earlier. Now what's new is that I found a
way to recover from it on my machine without reinstalling packets or rebooting. I just cleared all the traces:
* deleted .DCOP* .kde/ and .qt/ in /root
* killed the dcopserver process running as root
* killed the kdesud process running as normal user
* deleted /var/tmp/kdecache-root
* deleted /tmp/ksocket-root
* deleted the dcop socket in /tmp/.ICE-unix that belongs to the dcopserver killed earlier
* resetted the sudo timestamp with "sudo -k"
It works again after this. I should mention that, as long as it is working, _no_ new dcopserver is launched and
the files /root/.DCOP*, /var/tmp/kdecache-root are _not_ created. Maybe this will give someone a hint into what
is going on.