I am pretty sure this worked on first install. I am using KDE4.1 and trying to access dolphin as root. When I try kdesudo dolphin or sudo su root I get a message in dolphin, could not start process, cannot talk to klauncher.

I am not sure if anyone else has experienced this or not or if there is another way to access dolphin as root.
Thanks

this has been previously posted and a bug has been submitted, there is a work around published on the the bug page and maybe somewhere here

Try:
sudo su - root

Notice the extra - after su. This is a D-Bus issue I think.

Hi,

I found a solution to this problem today and to some other problems (in kubuntu).

1. I made a small script witch startes when kde starts:

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#!/bin/bash
xhost +local:0


2. I copied the dolphin entree in the kde-menueditor and made the copy start: kdesu dolphin %i -caption "%c" %u

That's it. I can now start dolphin as root.
I also had this problem when starting for example kate from dolphin, it would say: "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kate' ".
This problem is now solved to.

CarrotNL