Bug#325701: gnome-session: unable to launch gnome due to bad group/owner on .ICEauthority

Gustavo Noronha Silva kov at debian.org
Tue Aug 30 14:54:34 UTC 2005


Em Ter, 2005-08-30 às 14:45 +0200, Olivier Schwander escreveu:
> Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> > It could be some GNOME program run as root with HOME=/home/olivier.
> 
> 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=/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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