Bug 359041 – after upgrade to x11-base/xorg-server-1.9.4.901 kdesudo can no longer launch graphical apps

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description PM 2011-03-15 16:02:43 UTC]

The important message seems to be: 
KDESu::KDESuPrivate::KCookie::getXCookie: No X authentication info set for display  ":0"

examples:

$ kdesudo dolphin
kdesudo(3968) KDESu::KDESuPrivate::KCookie::getXCookie: No X authentication info set for display  ":0" 

unnamed app(3975): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server:  "/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: No protocol specified
Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
" 

unnamed app(3974): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly. 

$ kdesudo firefox
kdesudo(3987) KDESu::KDESuPrivate::KCookie::getXCookie: No X authentication info set for display  ":0" 

No protocol specified
No protocol specified
Error: cannot open display: :0

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Portage 2.2.0_alpha27 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.5.2, glibc-2.13-r2, 2.6.37-pf6 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.37-pf6-x86_64-Pentium-R-_Dual-Core_CPU_T4300_@_2.10GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:00:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.2_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.4
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.7.0
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.5
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.68
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.21
sys-devel/gcc:       4.5.2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.4-r1
sys-devel/make:      3.82
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
Repositories: gentoo dupa
Installed sets: 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -g"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -pipe -g"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirror.pw.edu.pl/ http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/"
LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="pl"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/moje"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 amr amrnb amrwb async audiofile automount bash-completion berkdb bfq bineditor bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups curl cxx dbus devhelp dirac disk-partition divx djvu dri dts dvd dvdr editor emboss emovix enca encode exchange exif faac faad fam fat ffmpeg fftw firefox firefox3 flac fontconfig fortran gd gdbm gdu geoip gif glitz gmedia gphoto2 gpm gtk hddtemp htmlhandbook iconv id3 id3tag imagemagick inotify ipod jack jpeg kde kde4 kdehiddenvisibility kipi kpathsea kqemu ladspa lame laptop lcms libcaca libnotify libsamplerate llvm lm_sensors mad mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext mng modules mp3 mp3tunes mp4 mpeg mplayer mtp mudflap multilib musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ogg openal opencore-amr opencore-amrnb opencore-amrwb opengl openmp pam pango pch pcre pdf perl plasma png policykit ppds pppd private-headers python qt-copy qt3 qt3support qt4 rar readline realmedia roe sasl scanner schroedinger sdl secure-delete semantic-desktop sensord session sndfile solver soundtouch sourceview spell sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg swat symlink sysfs syslog tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev unicode upnp usb vamp vcd vorbis webkit wicd wmf wmp wxwidgets wxwindows x264 xcb xcomposite xine xml xorg xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="battery sensors rrdtool" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="pl" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="x86_64 i386" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="x86_64 i386" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 PM 2011-03-15 16:07:03 UTC]

As per one of the Murphy's laws, this issue magically fixed itself right after filing this bug report. I guess I'll close it for now then...