Adept Manager crashes!

marc gmane at auxbuss.com
Tue Nov 18 22:57:00 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton said...
> 316097 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > When I try to run Adept it crashes, then I try to run it from a
> > console, same thing happens, below is the output, can anyone help me?
> > 
> > [sudo] password for pierre:
> 
> Well, there you go...  DON'T use "sudo" to execute gui apps.  Use 
> "kdesudo".  You're lucky it just didn't work.  Sometimes when you do 
> this, it _does_ work - and then makes it impossible for you to run some 
> apps as a normal user, because root has ended up owning files in your 
> home directory.

Hey, I accidentally ran kcontrol with kdesu today and it behaved in a 
very strange way; I was setting up a samaba share, I think.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc





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