I’ve been running OS 11.1 for about 2 weeks, clean install w/KDE4. Yast
would run fine from the menu then just today when you click on Yast
nothing happens. If I open a terminal and “su -” then run yast it works
fine. How can I fix yast from the menu.
Thanks!
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Use edit menu to check the settings in there for the launch command.
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The “Command” is /sbin/yast2. /var/log/messages has no errors related
to yast2 when I try to start it. Is there somewhere else to look?
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This is something you could try
Where you looked at the launch command, there is a ‘Run as user’ box,
try enabling that and setting the user to run as to root
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Same thing. Something interesting I tried may shed light how to fix.
From terminal as normal user issue command /sbin/yast2 opens fine with
limited functionality as expected since we did not switch user to root.
If I “su -” from terminal, run yast2 it run fine. However, as normal
user from terminal if I issue “sudo /sbin/yast2” I get the following
error: No protocol specified y2controlcenter: cannot connect to X
server :0. ???
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Is the user added to sudo?
Another one to try besides sudo, assuming you’re using kde is:
kdesu yast2
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Fixed. Have no idea why but from the properties of the icon, click the
“application” tab then “advanced options” then un-check “place in system
tray”. Now works. Do you know what “Place in system tray” means? On
OS 11 I ran KDE3 and on OS11.1 I’m trying to get use to KDE4. Maybe
that has something to do with it?
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I would imagine it means put the application in the system tray
I don’t really know much about kde4, I’ve hardly used it because as yet
I’m not all that keen on it, but you have it working now and that’s what
counts
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