Bug 259678

Summary: Running "Font Installer" (kde) from gnome overwrites .ICEauthority with root permissions
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2 Reporter: Carlos Robinson <carlos.e.r>
Component: KDEAssignee: E-mail List <kde-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Final   
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Hardware: PC   
OS: Other   
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Description Carlos Robinson 2007-03-31 11:16:41 UTC 
Running the kde program "Font Installer" (command "kcmshell kcmfontinst") from the  "System Administration" menu (Applications), which asks for root's pasword, results in overwriting the user ~/.ICEauthority file with root's permissions:

  cer@nimrodel:~> l .ICEauthority 
  -rw------- 1 root root 0 2007-03-31 12:49 .ICEauthority

This causes subsequents calls to kde programs under gnome to fail to start:

  cer@nimrodel:~> Compilaciones/kde/kshowmail-3.1.0/kshowmail/kshowmail 
  KShowmail running in normal mode
  kdeinit: Aborting. No write access to '/home/cer/.ICEauthority'.
  ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication.

and some times causes already running kde apps to crash silently (opensuse-updater).
Comment 1 Magnus Boman 2007-04-27 06:31:36 UTC 
Looks like it belongs in KDE
Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2007-04-27 11:49:47 UTC 
No, it does not.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 177480 ***