It would be interesting to find out if kdesu kcontrol
had the same beneficial effect: "DCOP Cleaning up dead connections." I cannot test this since I no longer have this problem, but I believe that the observation above from Richard holds the clue to the solution. -- Administrator button fails to work in kde-settings and kcontrol https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175909 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs