[gentoo-amd64] Re: Konqueror kcookiejar problem

[Duncan]

malc <mlashley@×××××.com> posted
1362ccfa0907040223v6a2c1ef5mf6be8e36f17402f6@××××××××××.com, excerpted
below, on  Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:23:07 +0100:

> Thanks Duncan, your musings prompted me to check something more basic
> (after kconfig services was totally empty) - and solve the problem.
>
> In /usr/share/kde4/services all of kded/ ScreenSavers/ ServiceMenus/ had
> 700 permissions... a quick chmod to something more sane and I'm now able
> to put my hand in the cookiejar once more :) Odd that neither
> kcookiejar4 nor any other part of kde threw a useful error...

Cool! =:^)

I do recall there being a post-install message for... kdelibs??, that 
says something to that effect, that if you have problems, check the 
permissions.  Apparently somewhere along the line they screwed them up 
(and/or maybe it has to do with root umask settings or something), and 
enough people are hitting it to justify adding that message.

But, this is the first time I've actually seen the problem in action, and 
it seems a bit more severe than the message sounded like it should be, so 
I didn't make the connection.  Thanks to you, now I, and probably quite a 
number of others reading this group, have made that connection and will 
spot it easier if we end up encountering it ourselves, either directly, 
or thru further posts from others with it.  =:^)

Hmm... yes, kdelibs-4.2.x.  From a recent log:

 .[32;01m*.[0m If you experience weird application behavior (missing 
texts, etc.) run as root:
 .[32;01m*.[0m # chmod 755 -R /usr/share/config /usr/share/config

(Obviously those control sequences would be color codes in a terminal, 
and the named directory detail isn't the same as your problem, but it 
looks like it's the same base issue... now that you figured it out, of 
course.)

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