Bug#226334: xfree86-common: /usr/X11R6/bin permission problems
Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.2.1-15
Severity: normal
Tags: sid
I believe this problem has occurred since I first installed unstable
from testing in the early part of Decemeber.
I could not run KDE because I could not start the DCOPServer due to
missing .config files because iceauth could not be run.
After doing a bit of digging, i found that /usr/bin/X11/ is symlinked to
/usr/X11R6/bin which has permissions of root.root with 700. Making any
user not running KDM [which would start iceauth/DCOP/et al as root]
unable to access KDE Applications because non-root users has no rights
to the X11R6/bin directory.
Setting the /usr/X11R6/bin/ permissions to 755 fixes this issue.
I have found that this seems to only affect KDE applications, but since
it's with the X11 binaries, I thought the bug should be placed with
xfree86-common.
Thx
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dev.wizardtechnologies.net 2.6.0-test11 #1 SMP Wed Dec 31 19:53:06 CST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xfree86-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.2 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.6.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
-- debconf information:
xfree86-common/experimental_packages:
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