[Bug 14357] gnome-session: unable to launch gnome due to bad group/owner on .ICEauthority

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------- Additional Comments From debzilla at ubuntu.com  2005-09-22 23:24 UTC -------
Message-ID: <4314926F.7000908 at wanadoo.fr>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:07:59 +0200
From: Olivier Schwander <olivier.schwander at wanadoo.fr>
To: 325701 at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#325701: gnome-session: unable to launch gnome due to bad
	group/owner on .ICEauthority

Gustavo Noronha Silva a =C3=A9crit :
> Em Ter, 2005-08-30 =C3=A0s 14:45 +0200, Olivier Schwander escreveu:
>=20
>>Josselin Mouette a =C3=A9crit :
>>
>>>It could be some GNOME program run as root with HOME=3D/home/olivier.
>>
>>The problem appeared after an upgrade of gnome-session and a logout. Bu=
t
>>  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.
>=20
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> Haven't you tried to run something else as root, using other means,
> maybe?
>=20
> See ya,
>=20
I tried to launch various gnome programs as root or not but there is no
=2EICEauthority 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.







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