Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 26 January 2007 13:30, Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy wrote: >> Why are you trying to use fonts in /root/.fonts? Are you running your >> GUI sessions as root? > > Usually, otherwise the stuff I want to do fails to open a path to the > x-session when I sudo or su -. Kino was one such app that I could run as > a user even when I did the su thing to gain access to the ieee1394 > hardware. I am sorry. I will not help you with problems running GUI as root. Basically you have problems because this is not intended usage of the system. I CAN help you run kino as a regular user though. BTW, does kino not run as a use weather or not you have selinux enabled? If so, why did you bring it up as an argument against selinux? > For the manpage writers we're being saddled with maybe. As for the aged > references, I've done a lot of been there's and done that's in 72 years. In the world of modern computing more or less anything is outdated after 6-12 months. So yes, 3-4 years is stone age and your age is irrelevant to this discussion. > > Here is the strace down to the first failure: > ------------------------------- > write(2, "/usr/share/fonts: failed to writ"..., 40/usr/share/fonts: failed > to write cache > ) = 40 I think the strace is incomplete. This write() call is trying to write to file handle 2 and I don't see any open() call that returns 2.
