http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178041 Bug ID: 1178041 Summary: rkward 0.7.2 [lp152.34.1] crashes if started as root Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 15.2 Hardware: Other OS: openSUSE Leap 15.2 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Maintenance Assignee: maintenance@opensuse.org Reporter: ndordea@gmail.com QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Hello, After upgrading rkward from 0.7.1 to 0.7.2 [ lp152-34.1-x86_64 ] I had some issues when started as user [ ~/share/rkward/QtWebEngine/Default can not be created ] . I fixed that by manually creating that directory ] An installation check was done and so far it runs ok . R level R 4.0.3 However, when started as root [ for R maintenance ] rkward crashes .... phase 1 ======= as root .... /usr/bin/rkward got the panel to select a RData, select the usual RData, then got these messages ... QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root' QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root' [27199:27199:1022/175843.788358:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(89)] Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See https://crbug.com/638180. phase 2 ======== try to start rkward again .... got the panel to select a RData select the usual RData, then got Crash recovery file detected ... select recover .... then it crashes again . sudo journalctl -a |grep rkward ... got 6 identical lines as below .. Oct 22 17:31:26 <localhost> rkward.rbackend[25491]: QIODevice::write (QFile, "/tmp/rkward.rbackend"): device not open Please note that /tmp/runtime-root is empty . Please have a look at this issue . Thank you, Nick -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.