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

[Olivier Schwander]

Gustavo Noronha Silva a écrit :
> 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,
> 
I tried to launch various gnome programs as root or not but there is no
.ICEauthority file created.
The only way to obtain a .ICEauthority file is at the first launch of a
gnome session. The file has the good owner.
If I delete the file, it is never recreated.
I can't manage to find what program created this file.