Bug 903543

Summary:	mail-client/evolution does not start, gives "Failed to connect to socket /root/.cache/at-spi/bus_0: Permission denied"
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Mark-Joe <mjpflaum>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	floppym
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Mark-Joe 2023-03-29 14:46:12 UTC

When attempting to start evolution (version mail-client/evolution-3.46.3-r1),
the mail client attempts to start and then quits with the message:

evolution:3204): dbind-WARNING **: 13:38:20.811: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /root/.cache/at-spi/bus_0: Permission denied
(evolution-alarm-notify:3211): dbind-WARNING **: 13:38:21.024: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /root/.cache/at-spi/bus_0: Permission denied
bwrap: Can't find source path /root/.cache/at-spi: Permission denied

When setting /root and /root/.cache/at-spi to a=xwr (which I obviously don't want to for long), then evolution starts.  

The behavior appears in kernel 4.19.277-gentoo and 6.1.19-gentoo

Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2023-03-29 20:29:35 UTC

Are you attempting to run evolution as root?

Comment 2 Mark-Joe 2023-03-29 20:54:23 UTC

No, I run evolution as a standard user, not as root. I tried it also with another user account, same thing. I have no idea why evolution wants to store data under /root/.cache/at-spi

Comment 3 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2023-03-29 21:00:44 UTC

Is XDG_CACHE_HOME set in the environment?

Comment 4 Mark-Joe 2023-03-29 21:10:17 UTC

 XDG_CACHE_HOME has not been set. It also isn't in my older gentoo machines where evolution is running. 
 I tried to set XDG_CACHE_HOME to /home/username/.cache but it did not help
either.