Unable to make any changes in Date / Time kcontrol
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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KdeSudo |
Fix Released
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Undecided
|
Anthony Mercatante | ||
kdesudo (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Critical
|
Anthony Mercatante | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: systemsettings-kde4
I'm running the KDE 4.2 Beta 2 packages in Kubuntu 8.10.
The "Date & Time" systemsettings module does not properly call kdesudo so any operations it tries (such as changing the time, utilizing NTP, or changing the time zone), fail.
When I enter the Date & Time module and make any change and click Apply the following message boxes pop up:
"Unable to contact time server: ."
"Can not set date."
"Error setting new time zone."
If I run systemsettings from a terminal, I get the following output:
systemsettings(
kdesu: Unknown option 'attach'.
kdesu: Use --help to get a list of available command line options.
I have also tried running systemsettings using kdesudo and sudo with the same result. It appears that the applet attempts to run the commands using kdesudo regardless of whether it is running as root or not.
Related branches
Changed in kdesudo: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in kdesudo: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in kdesudo: | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → Confirmed |
Changed in kdesudo (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → Confirmed |
Changed in kdesudo (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Changed in kdesudo: | |
status: | Confirmed → Fix Released |
Actually.
It appears that kdesudo is incompatible with kdesu as of KDE 4.2.
kdesu now got --attach to attach the dialog to a parent window, while kdesudo doesn't have this option. Moving bug to kdesudo package. Critical Importance since the only way kdesudo can replace kdesu is maintaining option compability.