Comment 70 for bug 15001

This bug is pretty annoying. I can edit config files by hand, but it's
sometimes difficult to do, if you don't know exactly what to enter there...

Steps to reproduce:
1. Run KDE control centre
2. Select any module requiring administrator privileges (e.g. login manager)
3. Click on Administrator Mode button
4. Enter password into kdesu popup window, click OK

Administrator mode is supposed to be activated, instead, initial KDE control
centre screen appears.

If I run:
kdesu -u root -c "kcmshell kdm --embed 41945141 --lang en_US"

from the console, for the first time, an error window pops up (see
attachement). After clicking OK, administrator mode of chosen module is
normally activated. Running from the console for the second time, with the
same --embed parameter, no error window pops up and administrator mode is
also normally activated.

Not running dcopserver is not the case. See:
bubli@jezko:~$ ps ax | grep dcopserver
 2209 ? S 0:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid

For safety sake, I attach also my locale settings. Please, let me know, if you
need any more testcases, or information.

LANG=
LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ
LC_NUMERIC="POSIX"
LC_TIME="POSIX"
LC_COLLATE="POSIX"
LC_MONETARY="POSIX"
LC_MESSAGES="POSIX"
LC_PAPER="POSIX"
LC_NAME="POSIX"
LC_ADDRESS="POSIX"
LC_TELEPHONE="POSIX"
LC_MEASUREMENT="POSIX"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="POSIX"
LC_ALL=

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ (charmap=ISO-8859-2)

Versions of packages kcontrol depends on:
ii kdebase-data 4:3.4.2-4 shared data files for the KDE
base
ii kdelibs4c2 4:3.4.2-4 core libraries for all KDE
applica
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii libaudio2 1.7-3 The Network Audio System (NAS).
(s
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration
library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared
lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-3 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.5.18-1 GNU libidn library,
implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-10 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.5-1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime
v
ii libraw1394-5 0.10.1-1.1 library for direct access to IEEE
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Session
Management
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-2 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.10a-21 userspace USB programming library
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System protocol client
li
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System miscellaneous
exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing
librar
ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Input extension
li
ii libxinerama1 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System multi-head
display
ii libxrandr2 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Resize, Rotate
and
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0-2 X Rendering Extension client
libra
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii libxtst6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System event recording
an
ii xlibmesa-gl [libgl1] 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Mesa 3D graphics library [X.Org]
ii xlibmesa-glu [libglu1] 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Mesa OpenGL utility library
[XFree
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System client libraries
m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-6 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages kcontrol recommends:
ii hotplug 0.0.20040329-25 Linux Hotplug Scripts

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