kdesu - no answer

[Alexander Smirnov]

On Monday 14 May 2007, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Alexander Smirnov wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > Sometimes, when i run kdesu it freezes:
> >
> > $kdesu -u username eclipse
> >
> > does not respose for hours :( The problem is not in application I run -
> > it happens with any application.
>
> ???  Very odd.  The only thing I can imagine causing that problem is that
> your "lo" interface is not up (check "ifconfig lo") but ...
>
> > When i run the same app via Alt+F2->Options->run as different user the
> > application executes
>
> I wouldn't expect that to work either, if my guess above was right :-(

The problem reproduced again :(
here is ifconfig output related to loop-back. It seems ok to me

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:6063 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6063 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:341614 (333.6 KiB)  TX bytes:341614 (333.6 KiB)