Bug#259757: kdelibs4: file ownership problem
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 10:08:54PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 02:33:13PM -0500, Nik A. Melchior wrote:
> > I probably should have filed a report against sudo, but this bug can be
> > reassigned if the original reporter believes this is the source of his
> > problems. It seems to me that sudo needs to export $USER or $HOME or $LOGNAME
> > in order to make this work properly.
>
> It's a feature, not a bug ;)
> At least there is a -H switch to sudo to export $HOME
>
Interesting. I'll probably be using this option from now on, but I'll also
need to educate anyone who uses sudo on systems I administrate so I don't need
to troubleshoot these DCOP errors everytime they use a KDE app in sudo. Why
isn't -H the default behavior? I can't think of any time I'd want the other
behavior.
Also, this still won't solve the problem. It may take care of
~/.ICEauthority, but there are still files in /tmp and /var/tmp that have
incorrect ownership. I've just tried the procedure again (viewing a bug log
in a browser during `apt-get install' in X), and I received some error
messages that I've never seen before (cypher's uid is 1000):
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What do you want to do now? [N|o|r|b|q|?]? b
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root"
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root"
Error: "/tmp/kde-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/kde-root"
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kbuildsycoca running...
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Reusing existing ksycoca
Error: "/tmp/kde-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/kde-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Error: "/tmp/kde-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/kde-root"
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cypher" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
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Now konqueror gives the following error when cypher starts it:
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kbuildsycoca: ERROR creating database '/var/tmp/kdecache-cypher/ksycoca'!
kbuildsycoca: Wrong permissions on directory? Disk full?
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Everything seems to work fine, but I could possibly run into the same problems
that the original reporter had. Perhaps KDE needs to modify the way it treats
these temporary files, or do I need to do something differently?
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