259678 – Running "Font Installer" (kde) from gnome overwrites .ICEauthority with root permissions

Bug 259678 - Running "Font Installer" (kde) from gnome overwrites .ICEauthority with root permissions

Summary: Running "Font Installer" (kde) from gnome overwrites .ICEauthority with root ...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177480

Alias:	None

Product:	openSUSE 10.2
Classification:	openSUSE
Component:	KDE (show other bugs)
Version:	Final
Hardware:	PC Other

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Normal (vote)
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Reported:	2007-03-31 11:16 UTC by Carlos Robinson
Modified:	2007-04-27 11:49 UTC (History)
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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 ***