Bug 43296 – Gnome permission problem

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description W.J. van der Laan 2004-02-29 09:00:29 UTC]

I just built a new Gentoo system from stage 2, and did 'emerge gnome'.

It ended up working for root and not for normal users. For normal users it crashed with a very non-descriptive fault in "gdk_draw_drawable assertion failed src == NULL".

This was because of the permissions on some directories in /usr/share like

/usr/share/gnome
/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/pixmaps

I think it is some default umask issue.

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2004-02-29 09:20:23 UTC]

what exactly did you install from ?

What were those exact permissions ?

[Comment 2 W.J. van der Laan 2004-02-29 09:44:28 UTC]

I booted from the Gentoo LiveCD 1.4 (athlon-xp-1.4-20030911-cd1.iso) then folowed the instructions in the handbook, downloading stage 2 (stage2-athlon-xp-20030910.tar.bz2), then installing and building from internet (emerge/rsync)

The permissions were -rwxr-x--- for user root and group root. (I think, I'm not entirely sure) I found them with a simple ls -alR | grep '\-\-\-'.

[Comment 3 Spider (RETIRED) 2004-03-01 09:59:44 UTC]

strange, all my systems list those as 0755

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2004-04-25 10:41:49 UTC]

maybe more something for the livecd maintainers.

[Comment 5 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-05-10 22:01:38 UTC]

I don't see why this should be a livecd-problem. The ebuild creates the directories mentioned. If they have wrong perms it's surely not livecd-related.

[Comment 6 Mr. Bones. (RETIRED) 2004-05-11 00:43:16 UTC]

Since this is a report for 1.4 and we have a couple new cds to choose from,
I'll mark this as FIXED.  Go ahead and reopen if this is still a problem with
2004.1 or 2004.2.  Thanks.