We are using SGE for job scheduling and for some reason it's not possible to run konsole through qsub: qsub -b y -V -cwd konsole
-b y tells SGE that it's a binary, -V exports the environment, -cwd instructs to run in the current directory.
The window very briefly pops up and then vanishes again. There are no messages or errors in stdout and stderr. I've tried to run konsole through strace (qsub -b y -V -cwd strace -f /usr/bin/konsole) in order to see what fails and that actually runs fine. The konsole window comes up and stays up. This unfortunately makes the issue not debuggable. Do you have any idea what is missing when I try to run konsole without the strace? I also tried to submit "dbus-launch konsole" with the same result.

Thanks,
Michael

Well, I guess this forum is dead.

nope, just that nobody who knows the answer to your questions has been around in the last 5 days since this was posted...