I have experienced identical behaviour.
A complete re-install of Kubuntu Gutsy has not helped.
I have filed
Bug #175909 in kde-systemsettings
because this bug is marked closed.
The messages on console when the Administrator Mode button is clicked are:
Typing
sudo kcontrol
from the console enables administrator tasks to be accomplished. This is
a workaround. There are error messages about uid being 1000 when it
should be 0, but it works.
kdesu kcontrol
fails with error messages.
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Administrator mode not working
It sounds VERY strange, but I'm experiencing this EXACT problem on Kubuntu
Gutsy 7.04. The system is completely updated and ship-shape.
Only one thing happened before this and I'm not sure if it related --
I had changed my locale to en_US from en_IN using Kcontrol - Regional
Accesibility -
I tried re-installing kcontrol, yet it did not work -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall kcontrol
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get
