New install 11.2 KDE Gnome Nettool fields greyed out.
I’ve always used this tool frequently and find in 11.2 it’s fields are greyed out.
Adding kdesu gnome-nettools or sudo gnome-nettools doesn not help
Opening a terminal, su - then gnome-nettools and the app functions as it always did in prior Suse versions.
Something new in 11.2 that is blocking it, like AppArmor?
???
Hi
Working fine here from command line or menu entry. Wonder if the
desktop file is wonky. Can you re-install gnome-nettool via YaST and
see if that helps.
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Thanks but I tried that already and no difference.
running apparmor and 11.2, no troubles with nettools. Check the file permissions, verify you have all the package requirments installed as well. if all else fails, remove the rpm, and install from source zypper si
All the gnome-nettool file permissions look the same as a properly working 11.1 install I have on another laptop
Deps must be ok because it’s working OK as root in a terminal
Tried removing and re-installing and still no joy.
User has same permissions and group membership as on 11.1 working copy.
???
what version are you using? I’ve got 2.28.0 installed using gnome. I have to wait to play with this in a kde environment untill I’m off work.
can you list your package soruce? “zypper info gnome-nettool” what’s your vendor: say?
whcih feilds are grayed out? Thinking back on this from an eairlier time, I’ve experinced this before and found out it was b/c of missing dependancies
gnome-nettool is a gui front end, so make sure all your backends are installed, like netstat, traceroute, finger, etc…
all fields are greyed out.
packages installed re same as the 11.1 working one so must be some sort of permissions issue
whois - yes
finger - yes
traceroute - no but see mtr, mtr-gtk and tcptraceroute available in yast
netstat - no but see gnmome-netstatus installed
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
Information for package gnome-nettool:
Repository: @System
Name: gnome-nettool
Version: 2.28.0-2.4
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: openSUSE
Installed: Yes
Status: up-to-date
Installed Size: 413.0 KiB
Summary: GNOME Interface for Various Networking Tools
Description:
GNOME Nettool is a set of front-ends to various networking command line
tools, like ping, netstat, ifconfig, whois, traceroute, and finger.
It’s KDE related.
Logged out
Logged in to Gnome Session and for same user it works perfectly.
Maybe Kwallet related?
I’ll look there.
interesting that it works fine in gnome and not in kde. I run several apps specific to kde in gnome for work and never had any issues. hummmmmmm
why do you think it’s kwallet related? does it ask for passwords?
maybe there’s something config’d differently in the files or kde is trying to use different backend tools and nettool doesn’t support those.
in any case, if it’s a must have, and you need those tools now, have a look at zenmap, it provides a lot of the same tools as nettools. it may hold you over untill you figure out nettools. I’ll have a look at my kde install tonight and let you know what I find. it’s always better to use what you’re used to insead of trying to relearn another app. 
Didn’t find anything in Kwallet that applies.
I’ll have a look at zenmap.
Looked aroun d allot for same tools packaged in one app similat to nettools in KDE but nothing.
Rather than wasting allot more time I’ll just open a terminal as root and run it from there when I need it.
Mostly I just use whois anyway.
Thanks for all you help!
Never imagined it would be such a chore!
create a desktop launcher with su -c gnome-nettool as the command, it’ll ask you for a password (root’s) and you’re done, you can add it to the your menu as well, same way. this will get you going with leaset amount of effort
sorry, “su -c gnome-nettool” as command, I didn’t know if this was clear as mud. when you click on the launcher it’ll ask for your root password. You’ll run it as root, it’ll emulate opening a terminal and running su then typing out the command.
Having a problem getting the launcher to open a Terminal but I get the idea.
Thanks
Still greyed out fields 
do you get any errors? what’s your log files say? /var/log/messages
or use log viewer (recommended)
search for anything related to gnome-nettool may help figure out what’s going on. it sounds like the config file needs to be adjusted or beat into submission.
either way I’m sure it’s fixable without a re-install (expically since that didn’t work anyway.)
Thanks I’ll keep banging on it as time permits.
Sill think it’s related to KDE Sessions som way.
ski_k2
I don’t think you’re going to find a fix for this very soon, been looking at it in the console from kde. It looks like it’s trying to access gconf and failing, b/c kde doesn’t use that. :’(
I did a side by side comparsion on zenmap and gnome-nettool and you’re missing netstat, finger, lookup, and whois. I’m not a wiz when it comes to hacking around the code to get it to do what I want, I like you rely on the the kindness of strangers on this forum and hope they’re smarter then me. To fix this issue someone will have to port the code accross to kde and use the built in backends that kde uses instead of gnome. gave it a good run though. I’ll keep this post subscribed and will post anything I find in my travels. Sorry ski, I really thought I had the answer here… 
ok, just checked other forums, ubuntu, fedora, Mandriva, and they all have issues with gnome-nettools running in kde. so at least you’re not alone! 
Hi
Closest I’ve found is kNut;
<http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kNut?content=103729>
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Thanks guys
I’ll have a look at kNut
Meantime whois is the main reason I use nettool and whoiis.net works just as well