> > Would somebody who does not use a sudo based distro please test whether this happens on
> your system?
> > 
> > 1. Start kate as normal user.
> > 
> > 2. Start a separate kate session as root using 'tdesu kate'.
> > 
> > Two separate sessions should be open. In the second session
> > you should be able to view the contents of /root.
> > 
> > If only one session is open then you are experiencing the
> > same problem.
> > 
> > No other app seems affected by this behavior.
> > 
> > Thanks much.
> 
> I found the problem. I don't know the correct long-term
> solution.
> 
> The problem is caused by the patch pushed in GIT hash
> 2b178a53, 2011-10-26 (SVN revision 1260900). The patch was
> pushed to resolve bug report 394.
> 
> I rebuilt tdebase with that patch reversed. Now I have no
> problems whatsoever using kate as normal user and
> concurrently as root through tdesu. The patches from bug
> report 692 have no ill effects either as I now have both my
> normal user kate and root's kate configured to use Calvin's
> patch for MDI usage. When I first start kate as root and
> then concurrently run kate from konsole as normal user, I no
> longer see the weird dcop warnings.
> 
> Thus far I do not notice any xsession "Klauncher could not
> be reached via dcop" errors as originally reported in the
> bug report.
> 
> Reversing the patch restores the code to 3.5.10 status. I
> run both KDE3 and TDE and in KDE3 I notice none of these
> problems. With the reversed patch, behavior is now the same
> in both desktops.
> 
> Yet as I mentioned, I don't know whether the patch is
> correct. If the patch is required, then the change has nasty
> effects and needs resolution elsewhere.

David,

As you participated in bug report 394, would you please include the reversed patch as part of your testing to help notice whether reversing this patch resurrects any of the issues reported back then?

This will need to be a long-term observation. Just plug the patch into your other patches and let time tell the story.

I am including the reversed patch in my builds. Thus far I have not noticed any of the problems originally reported.

Thanks.

Darrell