Konsole: You need to be root to perform this command

[Didi Kressnig]

On Wednesday 28 September 2011 17:55:33 Giuliano Colla wrote:
> Maybe it has nothing to do with your problem, but I've had a hell of
> similar problems whenever a dhcp server assigns a hostname which is
> different from the hostname KDE came up with when I logged in. I'm
> colla at localhost at startup, then I get connected to a network whose DHCP
> server renames my host machine to user-5, I become colla at user-5 and no
> KDE application can be started anymore. Need to logout and login again,
> with my new name.
> Hope that it helps,
try just before connecting to your dhcp server as your user colla:
xhost +SI:localhost:colla

this should prevent problems in the future.
hth
didi

> 
> Giuliano
> 
> Anne Wilson ha scritto:
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> > Since I installed F15 (keeping my F15 /home) I have been seeing a
> > several-second hang in Konsole, then this message.  I thought that
> > perhaps it was seeing my keychain configuration, and trying to get
> > keychain started, but I didn't install keychain at first.  Keychain is
> > now installed and I expected all to be well.  Unfortunately it isn't.
> > 
> > Now, when I start Konsole, my shell hangs without displaying a prompt.
> > 
> >  If I ^C I then see the message as above.  So far I haven't identified
> > 
> > any error messages obviously related to this.  I could use some help
> > in knowing what to look for and where.
> > 
> > The only thing I can see that I don't understand is
> > 
> > Sep 28 16:22:45 tosh rpc.idmapd[1143]: nss_getpwnam: name
> > 'anne at lydgate.lan' does not map into domain 'localdomain'
> > 
> > I think this is unrelated, though I'd like to know what is causing that.
> > 
> > Anne
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