On 16/02/11 04:09, Mike Galbraith wrote:

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 03:23 +0100, Stephan Kleine wrote:

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On Wednesday February 16 2011 01:45:46 Donn Washburn wrote:

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Why is it every time I upgrade amarok becomes more of a pain in the tail. This is as root user calling amarok.

WTF would you do something that stupid anyways?

It's not stupid to always want to be lord and master of your universe. I always run as root, have since forever (have paid for that choice too;). If you couldn't possibly care less about security, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

-Mike

And no one is going to fire you for doing so. There are many guys in positions that would get them fired if found to be doing so and a serious suspicious problem arose that may have nothing at all to do with running as root. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Senior Staff Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:09:10 +0100 Mike Galbraith wrote:

It's not stupid to always want to be lord and master of your universe. I always run as root, have since forever (have paid for that choice too;).

But then you have to log in as root, not just start random applications as root.

If you couldn't possibly care less about security, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

I couldn't disagree more. Kids, don't follow advice from strangers, at least not without thinking twice! -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 09:36 +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote:

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:09:10 +0100 Mike Galbraith wrote:

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It's not stupid to always want to be lord and master of your universe. I always run as root, have since forever (have paid for that choice too;).

But then you have to log in as root, not just start random applications as root.

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If you couldn't possibly care less about security, it's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

I couldn't disagree more.

Life would be boring without a bit of disagreement.

Kids, don't follow advice from strangers, at least not without thinking twice!

Hohum. Have a nice day. -Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

On 02/16/2011 02:54 PM, Will Stephenson wrote:

On Wednesday 16 February 2011 01:45:46 Donn Washburn wrote:

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Why is it every time I upgrade amarok becomes more of a pain in the tail. This is as root user calling amarok. This is a fresh load of 11.4 RC1 Yes I have gotten as much as possible from Packman but several dependencies are missing and then this DBUS headache.

Oh Yea thanks for fixing the gpm mouse

As root m1l: # amarok unnamed app(12140): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server: "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."

unnamed app(12139): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.

Disclaimer: running amarok as a root is a damn fool thing to do. It can access multiple online services, and the long-term attitude from some of its developers towards defects is such that I barely trust it to run as user.

The error message says there is no session bus running, so I guess you logged in as an unprivileged user then su'd to root. Most KDE apps expect there to be a bus. You can launch amarok as root and start a new session bus for it using 'kdesu dbus-launch amarok.

Will

-- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex

Have you seen this yet? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246404 Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org