Bug#265322: DCOP-Server: Running a KDE program as root causes the next start of KDE to fail
Package: kdelibs-bin
Version: 4:3.2.2-2
Severity: normal
Open a shell as user <user>, su to root, and start a KDE program like
konqueror, will change the ownership of the /home/user/.ICEauthority file
from user to root.
I'm not sure, if this is intended, but it ends up in a big
problem: the next time when trying to start KDE at this user,
it doesn't start, because the dcopserver has no write-access to
the .ICEauthority file.
KDE shows a error message telling about this permission problem.
I saw this problem already at KDE 2.2.2 in stable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26hw6
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE
Versions of packages kdelibs-bin depends on:
ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.2-2 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-1 A high-quality block-sorting file
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libcupsys2 1.1.20final+cvs20040330-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.4-1 GCC support library
ii libgcrypt1 1.1.12-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgnutls7 0.8.12-5 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-6 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtasn1-0 0.1.2-2 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libxml2 2.6.10-3 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-5 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.7-1 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii netpbm 2:10.0-3 Graphics conversion tools
ii python 2.3.4-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
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