Comment 13 for bug 20594

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:54:34 -0300
From: Gustavo Noronha Silva <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, Olivier Schwander <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#325701: gnome-session: unable to launch gnome due to bad
 group/owner on .ICEauthority

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Em Ter, 2005-08-30 =C3=A0s 14:45 +0200, Olivier Schwander escreveu:
> Josselin Mouette a =C3=A9crit :
> > It could be some GNOME program run as root with HOME=3D/home/olivier.
>=20
> The problem appeared after an upgrade of gnome-session and a logout. But
> only one user is concerned: an .ICEauthority used by an other user
> only with kde has a good owner.
> I may have used Synaptic as root but I don't understand how it could
> have bad $HOME. I tried with su and gksu but owner is preserved.
> I know that I have not forced HOME=3D/home/olivier.

Might be... I created a new user here tro try gksu +
$some_GNOME_programs here. I tried nautilus, evolution; I even invoked a
full gnome-session as root using gksu to try it out and make sure.
No .ICEauthority was created at all.

gksu does leave some variables like USERNAME and LOGNAME untouched,
though, so a misbehaving program could be the problem there. I tried
synaptic, though, and it works without creating a .ICEauthority.

Haven't you tried to run something else as root, using other means,
maybe?

See ya,

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<email address hidden>: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov>
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