On Wednesday 20 of June 2012 23:51:21 Marc Chénier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been using TDE (now 5.13.1) with Kubuntu Oneiric for a year or so. I
> regularly update with adept_updater. It worked fine until my last update.
> But now when prompted by adept_updater for my admin privilege password,
> after 3 tries, I get a KdeSudo Error window saying Wrong Password. But I
> have not recently changed, removed or added any password. It consists of
> alphanumeric characters only. This same problem applies when I try to open
> other kde applications that require administrative powers. I urgently need
> your help to get my password back.
>
> I do not have this problem when I log into TDE at the beginning of a
> session or kmail, or when I open a superuser console from the regular
> console.
>
> Here is some info I can give you :
>
> $ ls -l kdesudo
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 55972 2011-10-26 17:24 kdesudo
> $ ls -l adept_updater
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1246592 2011-10-14 17:36 adept_updater
> $ dpkg -l | grep kdesudo
> ii  kdesudo    3.4.2.3-2ubuntu3           sudo frontend for KDE
> ii  kdesudo-trinity      4:3.5.13-0ubuntu9+r1260892+pr3~oneiric       sudo
> frontend for Trinity
>
>
> Thanks in advance for responding. I really appreciate TDE and all the work
> behind it.
>
> Marco
>

Hi,

do you have the latest version of kdelibs (ax8) and kdebase (ax16)? What is 
kdesudo 3.4.2.3-2ubuntu3? This is a very old version? It says something to 
your .xsession-errors?

Slavek
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