Re: Problem with Gnome 1.0.1 debs

["Bruce Z. Lysik" <eldrik logrus com>]

>>>>> "SW" == Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi@ira.uka.de> writes:
    SW> meisterk@urbanet.ch wrote:
[snip]
    >> GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to: Permission
    >> denied.  Unable to connect to server port 35091
    >> 
    >> ** ERROR **: file orbitgtk.c: line 126
    >> (_gnorba_get_cookie_reliably): assertion failed: (pwent)
    >> aborting...  Aborted fireland:~$
    >> 
    >> on the other hand, all program run as root will run
    >> perfectly. This is obviously a permission problem. Any guesses?

Check the permissions on /usr/local/share and the gnome directories
from there.  My install originally had these as 700, causing a lot of
problems.  You might be running into the same thing.

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