Adept Manager crashes!

[Derek Broughton]

Willy K. Hamra wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 316097 at gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> When I try to run Adept it crashes, then I try to run it from a
>>> console, same thing happens, below is the output, can anyone help
>>> me?
>>>
>>> [sudo] password for pierre:
>> 
>> Well, there you go...  DON'T use "sudo" to execute gui apps.  Use
>> "kdesudo".  You're lucky it just didn't work.  Sometimes when you do
>> this, it _does_ work - and then makes it impossible for you to run
>> some apps as a normal user, because root has ended up owning files in
>> your home directory.
> 
> actually no. the sysmptoms you are describing, Derek, are when you run
> a GUI app from root. using "sudo su" or "sudo -i" and then running a

Actually, no.  This can happen _whenever_ you use sudo.  In fact, I'd 
expect it to be less of a problem using "sudo su" or "sudo -i" because 
those are login environments - they know where their home directory 
belongs.  "sudo app" runs _as_ root, but with _your_ environment.

> GUI app. as for sudo and kdesudo, they're the same. kdesudo provides a
> GUI for entering the password, but then, it uses sudo in the backend.
 
Yes it does.  Nevertheless, "sudo" frequently misbehaves when presented 
with a gui app.  Consider, "sudo program" starts "sudo", then the 
program.  "kdesudo program" starts "a" gui app (not "program") _before_ 
running sudo - which gives it a chance to get the $DISPLAY and any other 
information X needs, because generally "sudo" can't access your 
$DISPLAY.
-- 
derek