dependency problems

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 06:53:41 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <kde.lists at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 06:43:52 +0100
> Ralf Mardorf <kde.lists at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I didn't read the Wiki completely, but I notice that running "gksu
> > gedit", IOW running gedit with root privileges is mentioned. Never
> > ever do this, it could cause issues, the user's dconf permissions or
> > some other important file(s) could change to root privileges and
> > software that runs as user, then has got no access to it. Install
> > and use nano or sublime text to get easy to use editors, that don't
> > cause this issue.
> 
> Perhaps I'm mistaken. I remember that there were issues with file
> permissions, perhaps not dconf, perhaps dconf, at least I couldn't
> notice an issue yet. Maybe this behaviour changed.
> [snip]

If su is enabled, then still something could happen. The permissions of
a pulse directory changed. JFTR pulse isn't installed on my system :D.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ su -c gedit
Password: 

(gedit:12301): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The
connection is closed

(gedit:12301): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The
connection is closed

(gedit:12301): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf: The
connection is closed
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls
-hAl .config/dconf/user -rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 36K Nov 26
06:04 .config/dconf/user [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls
-hAl .config/dconf/ total 36K
-rw-r--r-- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 36K Nov 26 06:04 user
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /run/user/1000/dconf/
total 4.0K
-rw------- 1 rocketmouse rocketmouse 2 Nov 26 06:55 user
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /run/user/1000/
total 0
drwx------ 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 60 Nov 26 06:04 dconf
drwx------ 2 root        root        40 Nov 26 06:01 pulse
drwxr-xr-x 2 rocketmouse rocketmouse 80 Nov 26 06:01 systemd