kdesudo does not work in Kubuntu 14.04

Question

I recently installed Kubuntu 14.04, after which kdesudo seems to work only half the time. For example:

$ kdesudo systemsettings
kdesudo(29361) KDESu::KDESuPrivate::KCookie::getXCookie: No X authentication info set for display  ":0.0" 

QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
systemsettings(29368): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server:  "//bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: No protocol specified
Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
" 

systemsettings(29367): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.

This never happened in my previous versions (12.04 and 13.10), and is quite annoying... I don't know of any other way to run systemsettings with root privileges! I know this bug was reported here, but no one seems to have come up with a solution to that one :-( I tried removing .Xauthority, but that didn't solve the problem.

Any advice would be really, really welcome :-)

Related but not a duplicate This question Why is gksu no longer installed by default? may provide a work round for you. — Warren Hill, Jul 30 '14 at 16:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 30 '14 at 17:58

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Overall just running it with sudo then the application name works just as well and displays a log in the terminal you ran it from. Not the same but it works.

answered Jul 30 '14 at 17:58

sbergeron

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kdesudo does not work in Kubuntu 14.04

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