[Bug 1085405] [NEW] dolphin fails to run applications as root

[Pedro]

Public bug reported:

Im running kubuntu 12.10 raring but this problem it also appeared in
12.04 quantal.

When starting dolphin as root we can see in the output that fails to get
inotify_add_watch:

~:~$ LC_ALL=C kdesudo dolphin &
[1] 22628
simplew at insys-W150HRM:~$ Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /root/.config/ibus/bus

from this point each time i oduble click in a text file i get this
message:  KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwrite'

and the same will happen for all associated applications.

This problem appears to come from the implementation from the related patches about inotify_add_watch in kubuntu.
In other distros that do not use this implementation this problem appears to not exist, those distros only needed to have xhost set in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/  and running applications from dolphin root appears to work fine.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: dolphin 4:4.9.80-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-4.12-generic 3.7.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Dec  1 13:23:13 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-24 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: kde-baseapps
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: kde-baseapps (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring running-unity

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