Greetings, I am not sure if this should be here or in bug fixes, but since I first noticed it after a dist-upgrade last night, I thought it may belong here.
I was unable to run partition manager as root. when I tried to run it this came up in a window.
Warning: You do not have administrative privileges.
It is possible to run KDE Partition Manager without these privileges. You will, however, not be allowed to apply operations.
Do you want to continue running KDE Partition Manager?
and it gave the option of running as a regular user or quitting. I tried running other GUI programs that required root access including gparted, synaptic, and krusader. None of which would run from the pull down menu or by terminal command. they would all ask for the root password, and then fail.
I have also tried adding my user name to the sudo group but using sudo does not seem to work any better.