k3b program will not open

[wpshooter]

After installing & updating the Gutsy O/S on my brother-in-laws computer yesterday evening, I tried to install the k3b application and the install SEEMED to go fine & the program was placed on the sound menu but when I tried to open the program from there, it would NOT open.

I understand according the the following Ubuntu forum post that this is a problem related to user permissions to KDE info. According to what I am reading at that post, the program can probably be called from the terminal but not from the menu location.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=702307

I have installed k3b numerous times before with no problem. I am wondering if a recent Ubuntu update has caused this problem.

I hope someone can look into this and see this if this can be fixed.

Let me know if you need any other information.

Thanks.

[Alex Ruddick (alexrudd0)]

Changing to the proper package.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

In addition, (if you are still receiving this error in 8.10) it would be nice if you could post the output if you try to run k3b from the terminal.

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

[the duke (tstduke)]

hello I am running Ubuntu 9.04, after installing k3b via terminal it wont run when i click on the icon, i tried to run via commmand line and got the following output:
tyson@tyson-laptop:~$ /usr/bin/k3b
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/tmp-tyson-laptop: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/socket-tyson-laptop: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/tyson/.kde/socket-tyson-laptop: Permission denied
kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Permission denied
Could not bind to socket '/home/tyson/.kde/socket-tyson-laptop/kdeinit__0'
I am stumped as to what to do next
Regards

[the duke (tstduke)]

hello I got it going. I just had to run it as root. eg:tyson@tyson-laptop:~$sudo /usr/bin/k3b
It did give me a warning not to run it as root though, but thats the only way it will run.
regards