Bug#254951: Reproducing bug #254951
On Saturday 07 August 2004 02:30 pm, Andrew G. Luyt wrote:
> I have encountered this bug as well, and it seems only to affect
> non-KDE applications. Reproducing the problem:
>
> Right click on the panel to bring up the context menu. Select
> Add->Application Button->Debian->Apps->Net->Gaim (any non-KDE
> application will have the same problem)
> Right click on the newly-created button to bring up its context menu
> and select Properties.
> Click the icon, select a new one and click OK
> The error message will be
> "Could not save properties. You do not have sufficient access to write
> to /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/gaim.desktop"
>
> Other symptoms: chmod a+w
> /var/lib/menu-xdg/applications/menu-xdg/*.desktop fixes the problem
> temporarily, but the permissions are usually reset after an apt-get
> update && apt-get upgrade and the problem reappears.
>
> Platform:
> Debian Unstable i386 (updated August 7, 2004)
> Kernel 2.6.7-1-k7
> libc6 2.3.2.ds1-15
> kicker 3.2.3-1
I don't know what the correct behavior is here - should kicker make a copy
of the files and edit the copy? (If so, this is a kicker bug) or should
changes be made to the system wide file, in which case the menu-xdg package
should set looser permissions?
As a more permanent workaround, to change permissions yourself in a way that
will last across upgrades, see dpkg-statoverride. Though, from the man
page it looks like you might need to change them a file at a time.
Josh
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