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Re: [trinity-users] YaST2 launch failure

From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@...>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:56:19 -0500
On 2013-02-25 16:25 (GMT-0600) Leslie Turriff composed:

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> On 2013-02-25 14:53 (GMT-0600) Leslie Turriff composed:

>> > Now that I've gotten Trinity working on my OpenSuSE 12.2 system, I find
>> > that starting YaST from the menu no longer works.  The command string in
>> > the Application tab of the button configuration
>> > is "/usr/bin/xdg-su -c /sbin/yast2".  When I cut/paste that into konsole
>> > and run it I get this message:
>> > xdg-su: no graphical method available for invoking '/sbin/yast2' as
>> > 'root' which means nothing at all to me. :-)
>> > 	Any suggestions?

>> Have you tried simply /sbin/yast2? That's all my KDE3 menu in oS11.4 has.

> 	No, I didn't; but when I do, it opens with the message, " YaST Control Center
> is not running as root.  You will only see modules which do not require root
> privileges."
> 	Apparently, the setup for YaST2 has changed since 11.4?

12.2 host gx27b: YaST2 is /usr/bin/xdg-su -c /sbin/yast2 in the KDE 4.9.5 menu.

12.2 host gx62b: YaST2 is /sbin/yast2 in the KDE 3.5.10.x menu, and works.

12.2 host big41: YaST2 is /sbin/yast2 in the TDE 3.5.13.1 menu, and works.

Maybe you're missing something non-obvious?

gx62b# rpm -qa | grep qt
libdbus-1-qt3-0-0.8.1-165.3.i586
libqt4-4.8.1-2.12.1.i586
libqt4-sql-4.8.1-2.12.1.i586
libqt4-x11-4.8.1-2.12.1.i586
qt3-3.3.8c-215.1.i586
yast2-control-center-qt3-2.17.3-6.2.i586
yast2-qt-2.22.6-2.1.2.i586
yast2-qt-branding-openSUSE-12.2-11.12.1.noarch

big41# rpm -qa | grep qt
libdbus-1-qt3-0-0.8.1-165.3.x86_64
libqt4-4.8.1-2.4.1.x86_64
libqt4-qt3support-4.8.1-2.4.1.x86_64
libqt4-sql-4.8.1-2.4.1.x86_64
libqt4-sql-mysql-4.8.1-2.4.1.x86_64
libqt4-x11-4.8.1-2.4.1.x86_64
qt3-3.3.8d-1.x86_64
trinity-avahi-tqt-3.5.13.1-1.opt.x86_64
trinity-dbus-tqt-3.5.13.1-1.opt.x86_64
trinity-gtk-qt-engine-0.8-4.opt.x86_64
trinity-tdebase-libtqt3-integration-3.5.13.1-1.opt.x86_64
trinity-tqtinterface-3.5.13.1-1.opt.x86_64
virtualbox-qt-4.1.22-1.6.1.x86_64
vlc-qt-2.0.4-100.7.x86_64
yast2-control-center-qt3-2.17.3-6.2.x86_64
yast2-qt-2.22.6-2.1.2.x86_64
yast2-qt-branding-openSUSE-12.2-11.12.1.noarch
yast2-qt-graph-2.19.0-10.1.2.x86_64
yast2-qt-pkg-2.21.26-1.1.2.x86_64
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