The gnome-initial-setup-copy-worker never seems to have the correct permissions to copy from /run/gnome-initial-setup go a users ~/.config

[Matthew Hagemann]

There is a check in the copy worker that looks to see if the user running the copy worker owns the files it is trying to copy

```
if (!g_file_query_exists (src, NULL) ||
    !file_is_ours (src))
  exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
```

From all my testing, the copy worker will always run as a newly created user, and thus not own the file in /run/gnome-initial-setup and always exit here.

My workaround in provd is to update the ownership of the file in /run/gnome-initial-setup to the newly created user before booting into their session, allowing this check to pass.

Without this workaround, several settings applied in the gnome-initial-setup new user flow (mainly a11y) are not persisted to the new user after the gis process concludes.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: gnome-initial-setup 45.0-1ubuntu3 [modified: usr/share/applications/gnome-initial-setup.desktop]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-26.26-generic 6.5.13
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.28.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Mar 26 14:31:52 2024
InstallationDate: Installed on 2024-03-02 (24 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.10.1 "Mantic Minotaur" - Release amd64 (20231016.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gnome-initial-setup
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio)]

Hi Matt, what do you mean with "the file in /run/gnome-initial-setup"? The code you quote is checking for the home directory of the user owning the process.

[Matthew Hagemann (matt-hagemann)]

Hi Nathan :)

Sorry, I meant folder, not file.

The code is checking the ownership of the home directory of gnome-initial-setup which is /run/gnome-initial-setup, which is where the files we are trying to copy live:

```
src = g_file_new_for_path (initial_setup_homedir);

if (!g_file_query_exists (src, NULL) ||
    !file_is_ours (src))
  exit (EXIT_SUCCESS);
```

They are all owned by the gnome-initial-setup user:

```
root@matt-pc-q35-8-0:/run/gnome-initial-setup# ls -ld .
drwx------ 6 gnome-initial-setup nogroup 120 Mar 27 16:49 .
root@matt-pc-q35-8-0:/run/gnome-initial-setup# ls -la .
total 0
drwx------ 6 gnome-initial-setup nogroup 120 Mar 27 16:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 920 Mar 27 16:49 ..
drwx------ 6 gnome-initial-setup nogroup 120 Mar 27 16:49 .cache
drwx------ 6 gnome-initial-setup nogroup 140 Mar 27 16:49 .config
drwx------ 4 gnome-initial-setup nogroup 80 Mar 27 16:49 .local
drwx------ 3 gnome-initial-setup nogroup 60 Mar 27 16:49 snap

```

If I have understood the problem correctly:

The gnome-intial-setup-copy-worker is started in a user session, so it will be running as that user, not as the gnome-initial-setup user, and fail that check, preventing those files from being copied:

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-initial-setup/-/blob/debian/latest/data/gnome-initial-setup-copy-worker.service.in?ref_type=heads

https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-initial-setup/-/blob/debian/latest/data/gnome-initial-setup-copy-worker.desktop.in.in?ref_type=heads