2002-06-03 12:33:31

by bvermeul

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Subject: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up

The KDE panel (kicker) from KDE 3.0 (RedHat 7.3 issue) refuses to start
up. I get a SIGPIPE in DCOP, and a SIGSEGV in kicker.
This looks like something changed in regards to permissions, 'cause when I
start KDE as root, it does work.

Does anyone know what's happening?

Regards,

Bas Vermeulen

--
"God, root, what is difference?"
-- Pitr, User Friendly

"God is more forgiving."
-- Dave Aronson


2002-06-03 13:15:18

by Peter Wächtler

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Subject: Re: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up

[email protected] wrote:
> The KDE panel (kicker) from KDE 3.0 (RedHat 7.3 issue) refuses to start
> up. I get a SIGPIPE in DCOP, and a SIGSEGV in kicker.
> This looks like something changed in regards to permissions, 'cause when I
> start KDE as root, it does work.
>

check the permissions of /tmp/{kde|ksocket}-$(LOGNAME)


2002-06-03 13:19:18

by Adam Trilling

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Subject: Re: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up

Make sure you have read and write perms on your home directory. I had
that happen due to a misplaced chown -R once.

This is not a kernel question, however, and probably shouldn't be on this
list.

adam

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 [email protected] wrote:

> The KDE panel (kicker) from KDE 3.0 (RedHat 7.3 issue) refuses to start
> up. I get a SIGPIPE in DCOP, and a SIGSEGV in kicker.
> This looks like something changed in regards to permissions, 'cause when I
> start KDE as root, it does work.
>
> Does anyone know what's happening?
>
> Regards,
>
> Bas Vermeulen
>
> --
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> -- Pitr, User Friendly
>
> "God is more forgiving."
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2002-06-03 13:54:02

by Andrey Panin

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Subject: Re: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up


On my machine kicker showed a message about inability to parse IIRC
/proc/meminfo before dying, so the kernel can be involved.

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2002-06-03 21:45:26

by Diego Calleja

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Subject: Re: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 17:59:08 +0400
Andrey Panin <[email protected]> escribi?:

>
> On my machine kicker showed a message about inability to parse IIRC
> /proc/meminfo before dying, so the kernel can be involved.

yes, /proc/meminfo might have changed?. i've a gnome applet which shows
cpu, mem and swap usage. Under 2.5 tree, i only can see the cpu usage.
Others doesn't work

2002-06-04 05:07:18

by bvermeul

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Subject: Re: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up

On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Adam Trilling wrote:

> Make sure you have read and write perms on your home directory. I had
> that happen due to a misplaced chown -R once.
>
> This is not a kernel question, however, and probably shouldn't be on this
> list.

Everythink works using 2.5.17. So I think this *is* a kernel question.
I've had the same problem with 2.5.19 (and couldn't get 2.5.18 working
properly)

Bas Vermeulen

--
"God, root, what is difference?"
-- Pitr, User Friendly

"God is more forgiving."
-- Dave Aronson

2002-06-05 03:52:23

by Greg KH

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Subject: Re: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 08:34:44PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Adam Trilling wrote:
>
> > Make sure you have read and write perms on your home directory. I had
> > that happen due to a misplaced chown -R once.
> >
> > This is not a kernel question, however, and probably shouldn't be on this
> > list.
>
> Everythink works using 2.5.17. So I think this *is* a kernel question.
> I've had the same problem with 2.5.19 (and couldn't get 2.5.18 working
> properly)

Just to add one more "me too" here, I've seen the same thing here.

2.5.18 worked just fine from what I remember.

greg k-h

2002-06-05 10:06:40

by Dave Jones

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Subject: Re: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:49:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Everythink works using 2.5.17. So I think this *is* a kernel question.
> > I've had the same problem with 2.5.19 (and couldn't get 2.5.18 working
> > properly)
>
> Just to add one more "me too" here, I've seen the same thing here.
> 2.5.18 worked just fine from what I remember.

Wasn't this attributed to the /proc/meminfo format changing ?

Dave

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2002-06-05 15:07:16

by bvermeul

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Subject: Re: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:49:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > Everythink works using 2.5.17. So I think this *is* a kernel question.
> > > I've had the same problem with 2.5.19 (and couldn't get 2.5.18 working
> > > properly)
> >
> > Just to add one more "me too" here, I've seen the same thing here.
> > 2.5.18 worked just fine from what I remember.
>
> Wasn't this attributed to the /proc/meminfo format changing ?

If it is, that doesn't explain why when using KDE as root everything works
perfectly. That (at least in my eyes) can't be explained by a change in
format in /proc/meminfo. I could be wrong of course.

Bas Vermeulen

--
"God, root, what is difference?"
-- Pitr, User Friendly

"God is more forgiving."
-- Dave Aronson

2002-06-05 20:42:43

by Melchior FRANZ

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Subject: Re: [2.5.19/20] KDE panel (kicker) not starting up

* [email protected] -- Tuesday 04 June 2002 07:14:20:
> * On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Adam Trilling wrote:
> > Make sure you have read and write perms on your home directory. I had
> > that happen due to a misplaced chown -R once.
> >
> > This is not a kernel question, however, and probably shouldn't be on this
> > list.
>
> Everythink works using 2.5.17. So I think this *is* a kernel question.

I don't have the slightest doubt that it is a kernel bug: I observed the
same with the /dev/hdc device (the CDROM). Playing Audio-CD's doesn't work
since 2.5.19. It worked for years now with the same permissions, and giving
more liberal rights doesn't help either. It always returns with EACCES!

open("/dev/cdrom", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 3
ioctl(3, CDROMVOLREAD, 0xbffff1f8) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
ioctl(3, CDROMSUBCHNL, 0xbffff1fc) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

It works, however, for root! Could this be some broken capability
settings?

m.



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