kdesudo warnings on 12.10, now errors on 13.04

[Marco Parillo]

I was trying to add: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt to my hosts file, but I found I could not.
I used to get warnings in Kubuntu 12.10, but now with a daily build, I get errors:

mparillo@ubuntu:~$ kdesudo kate /etc/hosts

QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(2473) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Keywords in "plasma-applet-opendesktop-activities.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(2473) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Keywords in "k3bsetup.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(2473) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Keywords in "plasma-applet-opendesktop.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(2473) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Keywords in "plasma-applet-lockout.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(2473) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Keywords in "plasma-applet-batterymonitor.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(2473) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/im-switch.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(2473) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/ubuntuone-control-panel-qt-gnome.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(2473) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/ubuntuone-installer.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /root/.config/ibus/bus
Module "resources" is registered
Module "activities" is registered
Module "features" is registered
This is the current thread id for Activities 2973760320 QThread(0x8978398)
These are the disabled plugins: ("activitymanager_plugin_dummy", "activitymanager_plugin_nepomuk")
Initializing plugin: "activitymanager_plugin_globalshortcuts"
This is the current thread id for Activities 3023632192 QThread(0x885add0)
Initializing plugin: "activitymanager_plugin_slc"
Initializing plugin: "activitymanager_plugin_virtualdesktopswitch"
VirtualDesktopSwitch::init
Module "org.kde.ActivityManager.VirtualDesktopSwitch" is registered
Initializing plugin: "activitymanager_plugin_activityranking"
running in thread ActivityRanking
Initializing plugin: "activitymanager_plugin_sqlite"
Module "org.kde.ActivityManager.Resources.Scoring" is registered
The database doesn't exist, it is being created
Upgrading the database version to 1.01
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /root/.kde/share/config/activitymanager-pluginsrc
KUrl("file:///etc/hosts") KUrl("")
KUrl("") KUrl("file:///etc/hosts")

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

Result above was a guest under VMWare Player. I repeated the condition on today's daily image installed on a Live USB.

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

Note that I believe my permissions should be OK, because I can successfully:
sudo nano /etc/hosts
but not:
kdesudo kate /etc/hosts

[Marco Parillo (marco-parillo)]

This is resolved with yesterday's Kubuntu 13.04 daily build. The warnings are still there, but I can successfully kdesudo kate /etc/hosts