On Friday 26 January 2007 17:20, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Friday 26 January 2007 14:45, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: >>> Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> On Friday 26 January 2007 13:30, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: >>>>> Why are you trying to use fonts in /root/.fonts? Are you running >>>>> your GUI sessions as root? >>>> >>>> Usually, otherwise the stuff I want to do fails to open a path to >>>> the x-session when I sudo or su -. Kino was one such app that I >>>> could run as a user even when I did the su thing to gain access to >>>> the ieee1394 hardware. >>> >>> I am sorry. I will not help you with problems running GUI as root. >>> Basically you have problems because this is not intended usage of the >>> system. I CAN help you run kino as a regular user though. BTW, does >>> kino not run as a use weather or not you have selinux enabled? If so, >>> why did you bring it up as an argument against selinux? >> >> Gee, simple I'd think, I read the logs when it failed, and it was >> selinux that denied me access to the ieee1394 hardware when i ran it >> as the user gene, uid 500. > >So, after you disabled selinux you were able to run kino as user right? > Did you try to use audit2allow? Someone suggested it, I ran it, but its output looked like it was swahili or something similar. I even went thru the procedure to reload its output into policy, but at that particular instant the stars weren't aligned properly and it made no difference that I could detect. >>>> write(2, "/usr/share/fonts: failed to writ"..., 40/usr/share/fonts: >>>> failed to write cache >>>> ) = 40 >>> >>> I think the strace is incomplete. This write() call is trying to >>> write to file handle 2 and I don't see any open() call that returns >>> 2. > >Sorry, 2 is one of the standard I/O handles, probably stderr. So there > shouldn't have been an open call for that I suppose. I finally grokked that myself, with the predictable result that there is obviously a problem, but its beyond the perview of strace to show it/ Is there in fact a better *trace for stuff like this? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
