[ubuntu-uk] kstars issues

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Baza,

> OK, here's the story so far. Installed kstars, it only works if I run
> it as root. If I do that next boot the ownership of .ICEauthority has
> to be changed from the failsafe terminal via chown back to me from
> root. 

So root can do something you can't.

> This is what terminal shows when I run kstars...
> 
> baza at loki:~$ kstars
> kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Permission denied
> Could not bind to socket '/home/baza/.kde/socket-loki/kdeinit__0'

Here's my machine having not run kstars for some days, or any other KDE
app.

    $ ls -l .kde/socket-blake
    lrwxrwxrwx  1 ralph ralph 18 2005-06-28 17:19 .kde/socket-blake -> /tmp/ksocket-ralph
    $ ls -lL .kde/socket-blake
    ls: .kde/socket-blake: No such file or directory

So it points to something in /tmp that's been cleaned-up over time.
After running kstars I get

    $ ls -l .kde/socket-blake
    lrwxrwxrwx  1 ralph ralph 18 2005-06-28 17:19 .kde/socket-blake -> /tmp/ksocket-ralph
    $ ls -ld /tmp/ksocket-ralph
    drwx------  2 ralph ralph 4096 2005-08-30 13:59 /tmp/ksocket-ralph
    $ ls -la /tmp/ksocket-ralph
    total 12
    drwx------   2 ralph ralph 4096 2005-08-30 13:59 .
    drwxrwxrwt  14 root  root  8192 2005-08-30 14:00 ..

So a, now empty, directory in /tmp has been created with user.group set
to me.  The permissions on /tmp are

    $ ls -ld /tmp
    drwxrwxrwt  14 root root 8192 2005-08-30 14:00 /tmp

How's all that compare to loki?

Cheers,


Ralph.