I seem to be running into all kinds of weird problems, and here is another one: Some users on our university systems are running into problems after the upgrade to FC3. It seems that Gnome applications (or actually applications that use the Gnome file dialogs, including OpenOffice.org and Firefox) have the nasty tendency to access the / directory when the file dialog pops up. But this only happens under other desktop environments (KDE, XFCE, twm), not on Gnome itself. The problems with it is two-fold: on some systems, we have set / to be only executable for non-root users. This is normally fine, and it prevents users from poking around in areas where they have no business. Looked like an ideal setup for student computer labs at the time, and worked flawlessly under FC1 and 2. However, now with FC3 this results in a glibc "double free or corruption" error. The other side of the problem: when / is accessible to the user, as it is on most systems, opening the file dialog will somehow try to make a listing of all mount points configured in automount, and we have a lot of those, so this may take quite some time, just for opening a file dialog. Now the strange thing is that everything works fine for Gnome users. Does anyone have some clues on what is going wrong with gnome applications running in other environments? Why do they then need access to / and can that be configured somewhere? Will it help to start any of the additional programs that gnome starts on login (gconfd-2 or so)? David Jansen
