Bug 49138

Summary: Some screensavers cannot be run as non-root: permission denied
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Telsa Gwynne <hobbit>
Component: xscreensaverAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version: 7.3CC: rvokal
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Description Telsa Gwynne 2001-07-15 10:35:50 UTC 
Description of Problem:

Playing with screensavers through the gnome control-centre capplet.

xscreensaver: could not execute "atlantis": permission denied.
xscreensaver: could not execute "bubble3d": permission denied.
xscreensaver: could not execute "glplanet": permission denied.

I am running X as non-root.

I expect this has something to do with it.

[hobbit@pwca xscreensaver]$ pwd; ls -l | grep -- "----"
/usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 atlantis
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 bubble3d
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 dangerball
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 gflux
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 glplanet
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 gltext
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 lament
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 molecule
-rw-------    1 root     root        90112 Jun 24 23:49 morph3d
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 pulsar
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 rubik
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 sierpinski3d
-rw-------    1 root     root            0 Jun 24 23:49 starwars
-rw-------    1 root     root       122880 Jun 24 23:49 stonerview

Why are most of these apparently empty?

[hobbit@pwca xscreensaver]$ rpm -V xscreensaver
..?.....   /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/atlantis...
(same for all of those listed above: because I ran rpm as non-root?)
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-07-15 23:49:59 UTC 
Argh, that reminds me, I need to actually build 3.33-1. :)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47069 ***