Administrator Mode does not work

[Rick Graves]

I just installed Gutsy on two different systems, and I cannot get into Administrator Mode in System Settings on either install.

I will continue using one (at my residence), but at my workshop, I am back to 6.10.

[Tapani Tarvainen (ubuntu-tapani)]

Same here, observed in two machines - never seen in two others.
Could be random effect, in one it happened every time for a while after
installation, but after resorting to "kdesu kcontrol" for a while it went away.

[Hugolino (h-fertin)]

Same trouble here on a kubuntu gutsy gibbon, the "Administrator Mode" seems broken.

I ran systemsettings from konsole, and click on "Disks and Filesystems", konsole says:
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$ systemsettings
adding Disk & Filesystems /usr/share/applications/kde/mountconfig.desktop

Pythonize constructor -- pid = 7311
Python interpreter initialized!

Pythonize constructor -- pid = 7311
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When I click the "Administrator Mode" button, the following line is added to konsole:
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passprompt
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Sometimes (sorry I cannot say in which circumstances) a window titled "Kdesudo"
appears saying:
"/usr/bin/kcmshell System/mountconfig --embed-proxy
48237627 --lang fr needs administrative privileges. Please
enter your password for verification"

So I type my password

And in the konsole window, one can read:
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Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib:
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

kcmshell: cannot connect to X server :0
8<-----------8<---------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<

Hope this will help to solve this annoying bug.

The workaround is to launch systemsettings from the konsole with the command 'sudo systemsettings'

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[Rich Johnson (nixternal)]

Confirming due to responses. I cannot confirm this issue, however in the past I have seen this issue come and go with a logon/logoff fixing the issue if I remember correctly. Does this problem always occur for all of you?