kde/kaffeine permission problems

[Joel-26]

In my brand new install of fedora
10, I tried to install kaffeine (sudo yum install kaffeine). When I start it,
the program crashes.

This is what I get after entering the command kaffeine at the prompt:
Error: Can not create link from
"/home/joel/.kde/tmp-lafontaine.localdomain" to
"/tmp/kde-joel"
Error: Can not create link from
"/home/joel/.kde/tmp-lafontaine.localdomain" to "/tmp/kde-joeljNGu1V"
trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/tmp-lafontaine.localdomain:
Permission denied
Error: Can not create link from
"/home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain" to
"/tmp/ksocket-joel"
Error: Can not create link from "/home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain"
to "/tmp/ksocket-joel8gCute"
trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain:
Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain:
Permission denied
kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : No such file or directory
Could not bind to socket
'/home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain/kdeinit__0'

I changed the permissions of my home directory to a+wx, and changed the
permissions of the directory ~/.kde to a+w; kaffeine opens but can't open
/dev/dvd, can't open dvb device. It also returns

trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/share/servicetypes: Permission
denied
trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/share/mimelnk: Permission denied
etc..

how should i configure kde/kaffeine/permissions to get this thing to work? Or do I have to run it as root?


     

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[Beso-2]

2008/12/4 Joel <tempestcat9@...>:

> In my brand new install of fedora
> 10, I tried to install kaffeine (sudo yum install kaffeine). When I start it,
> the program crashes.
>
> This is what I get after entering the command kaffeine at the prompt:
> Error: Can not create link from
> "/home/joel/.kde/tmp-lafontaine.localdomain" to
> "/tmp/kde-joel"
> Error: Can not create link from
> "/home/joel/.kde/tmp-lafontaine.localdomain" to "/tmp/kde-joeljNGu1V"
> trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/tmp-lafontaine.localdomain:
> Permission denied
> Error: Can not create link from
> "/home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain" to
> "/tmp/ksocket-joel"
> Error: Can not create link from "/home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain"
> to "/tmp/ksocket-joel8gCute"
> trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain:
> Permission denied
> trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain:
> Permission denied
> kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : No such file or directory
> Could not bind to socket
> '/home/joel/.kde/socket-lafontaine.localdomain/kdeinit__0'
>
> I changed the permissions of my home directory to a+wx, and changed the
> permissions of the directory ~/.kde to a+w; kaffeine opens but can't open
> /dev/dvd, can't open dvb device. It also returns
>
> trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/share/servicetypes: Permission
> denied
> trying to create local folder /home/joel/.kde/share/mimelnk: Permission denied
> etc..
>
> how should i configure kde/kaffeine/permissions to get this thing to work? Or do I have to run it as root?
>

this issue will not only present with just kaffeine. all the apps that
need to create something inside .kde/shares will not be able to do it.
you should set the permissions on the .kde/share/ folder and
subfolders to 700 (owner will have full access) and then set the owner
to joel. the /tmp/.private (which should be the pointer to the link of
.kde/socket (or whichever the link points) should be rwx--x--x
(tmpfs). kaffeine (as other programs) need execute permissions on
tmpfs. check that in fstab you have the right tmpfs permissions
they should be mode=1777 (you should have something like tmpfs /tmp
tmpfs mode=1777,nodev,nosuid,size=1gb 0 0
which means that a tmpfs of 1 gb of space will be mounted on /tmp.
just be sure that your ram space+swap space is larger than the
settings of your all tmpfs inside fstab.

--
dott. ing. beso

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