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Re: [trinity-devel] After "Super User Mode" - "Klauncher could not be reached via dcop"

From: Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 10:30:14 -0700 (PDT)
>   I have noticed this with Trinity throughout 3.5.13
> development, but it never bubbled up in priority over CMake
> and build issues. The problem:
> 
> If you use one of the "Super User Mode" apps like konqueror
> file manager. The desktop can no longer launch applications
> as a normal user until Trinity is restarted. You get a
> Klauncher error message that "Klauncher could not be reached
> via dcop".
> 
>   It looks like after a super user app is run - the
> dcop is stuck in super user mode or something similar. I
> don't know how to go about chasing this down, but wanted to
> bring it to the lists attention. I also want to know if
> someone else can confirm this behavior.
> 
>   Just open System->Super User->File
> Manager-Super User Mode
> 
>   It will work fine. Then close it. No go try and open
> any other app as a normal user (i.e. kwrite). It won' work.
> You will get the error:
> 
> "Klauncher could not be reached via dcop"
> 
>   So what every gets changed when dcop runs a Super
> User mode app -- doesn't get undone when the app exits.
> 
> -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

Reported several months ago in Bug Report 394. :)

Darrell