[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

[walt <w41ter@gmail.com>]

On 04/26/2010 03:11 PM, Dale wrote:
> Alex Schuster wrote:
>> Dale writes:
>>
>>> Again, I am using Konsole for this. This may be a KDE thing. I know
>>> it worked fine in KDE3 but then again, a LOT of things worked fine in
>>> KDE3.
>> It's probably not a KDE thing. I'm also using konsole in KDE4, and after
>> becoming root (via su or su -) I have no Problems starting X applications.
>>
>> I'm no expert at X authorization stuff. But I know that in the past I also
>> had trouble when becoming root. Why it works for me and not for you - I
>> don't know.
>>
>> Workarounds you might try:
>> - Emerge sux, and use sux instead of su. Worked for me in the past.
>> - ssh -Y root@localhost
>>
>> Wonko
>>
>>
>
> I don't use su. When I open the Konsole, it asks for a password.

Does that mean you are not using the standard konsole, rather a special
icon intended to open a root terminal?  Must be, otherwise it wouldn't
ask for the root password.

Try opening a standard user konsole and just use su instead.  (Or even,
heaven forbid, an xterm instead of konsole.)  That should detect a KDE
problem if it exists.