dolphin fails to run applications as root

[Pedro]

Im running kubuntu 12.10 raring but this problem it also appeared in 12.04 quantal.

When starting dolphin as root we can see in the output that fails to get inotify_add_watch:

~:~$ LC_ALL=C kdesudo dolphin &
[1] 22628
simplew@insys-W150HRM:~$ Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /root/.config/ibus/bus

from this point each time i oduble click in a text file i get this message: KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwrite'

and the same will happen for all associated applications.

This problem appears to come from the implementation from the related patches about inotify_add_watch in kubuntu.
In other distros that do not use this implementation this problem appears to not exist, those distros only needed to have xhost set in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ and running applications from dolphin root appears to work fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: dolphin 4:4.9.80-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-4.12-generic 3.7.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec 1 13:23:13 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-24 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: kde-baseapps
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

I get those warnings too and it works, so this isn't an inotify issue at least.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Still a problem?

[Patrick Gillespie (vermontpoet)]

This bug has shown up on my system. 32bit, running Netscape Enigma/Kubuntu 13.04.

In terminal:

gksu dolphin

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

sudo dolphin

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-vtpoet" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

The only workaround I've found is to install Thunar, and run it as root.

Prior to my last update, I was able to run Dolphin as root.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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