sudo kcontrol gives errors
Using Debian Sid, KDE 3.4.2 I am getting following errors on the konsole
when I run kcontrol using sudo. Any idea how to get rid of them?
$uname -a
Linux kusumanchi 2.6.12-1-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Sep 27 13:10:31 JST 2005
i686 GNU/Linux
$sudo kcontrol
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-rajulocal" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
ERROR: Communication problem with kcontrol, it probably crashed.
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-rajulocal" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-rajulocal" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-rajulocal" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-rajulocal" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-rajulocal" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
$sudo ls -al /var/tmp/kdecache-root/
total 2040
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Oct 11 15:30 .
drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 4096 Oct 11 15:47 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2069084 Oct 11 15:30 ksycoca
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 630 Oct 11 15:30 ksycocastamp
rajulocal@kusumanchi:~ 6 5003 03:50 PM
$sudo ls -al /var/tmp/kdecache-rajulocal/
total 2064
drwx------ 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 Oct 11 15:09 .
drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 4096 Oct 11 15:47 ..
drwx------ 2 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 Sep 29 23:24 favicons
drwx------ 2 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 Apr 22 18:25 help
drwx------ 27 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 Aug 30 15:28 http
drwx------ 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 Sep 10 21:19 kio_help
drwx------ 2 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 Sep 23 10:43 krun
-rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 2075709 Oct 11 15:09 ksycoca
-rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 818 Oct 11 15:09 ksycocastamp
Is the problem with the /var/tmp/kdecache-rajulocal directory? Is it
safe to remove this directory?
thanks
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Graduate Student, MAE
Cornell University
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
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