Bug 36698

Summary: XCDRoast fails silently when started as non-root user
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Yaron Minsky <yminsky>
Component: xcdroastAssignee: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version: 7.1CC: gustav
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Description Yaron Minsky 2001-04-19 23:08:06 UTC 
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When a non-root user launches xcdroast from the command line, it silently
fails, giving no hint as to why.  When launched from the start menu, xalf
gets going, but it never finishes launching.  When xcdroast fails to launch
because it was launched as a non-root user, it should give a message to
that effect.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.type "xcdroast"
2.hit return
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2001-05-02 11:49:39 UTC 
I can reproduce this only if I try to run xcdroast after a 'su - username'
Is this what you are trying to do ?
Comment 2 Yaron Minsky 2001-05-02 12:44:40 UTC 
Nope.  This happens if I launch xcdroast as a regular user.
Comment 3 Karsten Hopp 2001-05-03 10:31:51 UTC 
Can you start other consolehelper enabled tools such as apache-config as
a normal user ?
Can you send me a strace output (strace -f -F -s200 -p <pid of process>) of
xcdroast ?
Comment 4 Yaron Minsky 2001-05-03 15:15:06 UTC 
Created attachment 915078 [details]
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Comment 5 Karsten Hopp 2001-05-22 11:54:12 UTC 
A normal user is not supposed to have /sbin or /usr/sbin in the PATH.
If you absolutly have to add these directories to your PATH variable, 
add them at the end of the searchpatch, not at the front !
If you call /usr/bin/xcdroast instead of /usr/sbin/xcdroast, everything should
work fine.