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  • SteveRiley
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    Yeah, I saw that. Generally, deleting /tmp while a system is booted isn't a good idea. In your case, this kills your XAuth cookie, which has all kinds of weird side effects. I'm trying to find out why your cookie is getting placed into /tmp rather than being written to ~/.Xauthority. Please do run that next set of commands -- let's try to find out what's going on.

    n.b.: I've never been a fan of Bleachbit for this exact reason. It's too much of a sledgehammer.
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  • Qqmike
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    The maintainer upped the importance of the bug to High. This is probably why! It messes with your ability to run graphical apps as admin, without a re-boot.
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  • SteveRiley
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    OK! We're getting somewhere. The output of #5 tells me that your XAuth cookie is getting deleted when BleachBit purges /tmp. But why is your cookie there? Mine isn't. More investigation...

    1. Reboot again.

    2. Show the output of
    Code:
    xauth info

printenv | grep HOME

printenv | grep X

ls -al ~/.X*

ls -al /tmp/kde-mike
    3. Do a normal user Bleachbit run (to recreate the broken condition).

    4. Repeat all the commands in #2.
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  • Qqmike
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    Ha! Thunderbird is now asking for my PW each time I click New Messages! Yep, something is messing with my super sudo root-o thingy, or something. I clicked the Passwoord Manager thing in T-Bird to try to save the PW.
    Last edited by Qqmike; Oct 10, 2014, 09:36 PM.
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  • Qqmike
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    1. Restart X (or reboot).
    Ctrl-Alt-Del

    2. Open a Kate window (for subsequent pasting of stuff).

    3. Run xauth list and paste the output into the opened Kate window.
    ~$ xauth list
    mike-desktop14/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 -looks like a UUID here, 32 digits-

    4. Do a normal user Bleachbit run (to recreate the broken condition). --OK

    5. Run xauth list again and paste the output into the opened Kate window. Is it the same as the previous time?
    No, it is different:
    ~$ xauth list
    xauth: file /tmp/kde-mike/xauth-1000-_0 does not exist

    6. Try kdesudo kcalc -- it should fail similarly.
    Yes, failed.

    7. Run xauth -b
    Code:
    ~$ xauth -b
Attempting to break locks on authority file /tmp/kde-mike/xauth-1000-_0
xauth:  file /tmp/kde-mike/xauth-1000-_0 does not exist
Using authority file /tmp/kde-mike/xauth-1000-_0
    8. Try kdesudo kcalc -- what happens now? Same error and failure, or does the calculator run?
    Calculator did NOT run:
    xauth> kdesudo kcalc
    xauth: (stdin):1: unknown command "kdesudo"
    xauth>
    Last edited by Qqmike; Oct 10, 2014, 10:00 PM.
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  • SteveRiley
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    Crap. No /root/.Xauthority ... one theory thwarted.

    1. Restart X (or reboot).

    2. Open a Kate window (for subsequent pasting of stuff).

    3. Run xauth list and paste the output into the opened Kate window.

    4. Do a normal user Bleachbit run (to recreate the broken condition).

    5. Run xauth list again and paste the output into the opened Kate window. Is it the same as the previous time?

    6. Try kdesudo kcalc -- it should fail similarly.

    7. Run xauth -b

    8. Try kdesudo kcalc -- what happens now? Same error and failure, or does the calculator run?
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  • Qqmike
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    Yes, I see this now.

    Code:
    sudo ls -al /root
[sudo] password for mike: 
total 32
drwx------  6 root root 4096 Oct  1 11:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Oct  9 08:28 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 3106 Feb 19  2014 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Oct  1 16:59 .config
drwx------  3 root root 4096 Oct  1 11:17 .dbus
drwxr-----  2 root root 4096 Oct  7 09:50 .hplip
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Oct  1 11:17 .kde
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  140 Feb 19  2014 .profile
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  • SteveRiley
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    Originally posted by Qqmike View Post
    obviously, Kate did not open
    Ah ha!

    So I'm fairly certain that the problem isn't
    --> Bleachbit won't run as root after it runs as normal user
    but instead the problem is
    --> Running Bleachbit (as a normal user) creates a situation in which subsequent attempts to run any graphical program with elevated rights will fail
    See the difference?

    What's the output of sudo ls -al /root?
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  • Qqmike
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    Yes, same state as above:

    Code:
    mike@mike-desktop14:~$ kdesudo kate
kdesudo(18657) KDESu::KDESuPrivate::KCookie::getXCookie: No X authentication info set for display  ":0" 

Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address. 
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon 
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
No protocol specified
kate: cannot connect to X server :0
    (Of course, it asked for my PW at one point and so on; and, obviously, Kate did not open.)
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  • SteveRiley
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    Hm. Qq... I noticed this in the output on the console when you attempted the root run:
    Code:
    ~$ kdesudo bleachbit
 kdesudo(18451) KDESu::KDESuPrivate::KCookie::getXCookie: No X authentication info set for display  ":0"
    Assuming you're in the current state -- where BleachBit no longer runs as root -- please run kdesudo kate in the console window. What's the output in the window, and did Kate start?
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  • Qqmike
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    That's OK. :-) Thanks for looking at it.
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  • SteveRiley
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    Sorry, my bad. It's been a whine since I read this entire post and was thinking backwards -- I had convoluted the problem into that of Bleachbit failing as normal user after succeeding as root. Now I've read the full thread and I know the problem is failing as root after running as normal user. The two things I asked for wouldn't show anything useful for this scenario.
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  • Qqmike
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    I completed Step 4 and edited above post #40.
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  • Qqmike
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    1. Perform a successful run as a normal user.
    OK, 13.9 GB, 40 files


    Code:
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 Delete 10.5MB /home/mike/.kde/cache-mike-desktop14/icon-cache.kcache 
 Delete 4.1kB /home/mike/.kde/cache-mike-desktop14/ksycoca4stamp 
 Clean file 0 /home/mike/.config/vlc/vlc-qt-interface.conf 
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 Delete 4.1kB /home/mike/.thunderbird/eew828f5.default/Mail/pop.centurylink-1.net/Trash.msf 
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 Delete 8.2kB /home/mike/.thunderbird/eew828f5.default/Mail/Local Folders/xzDaveJ.msf 
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 [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/syslog.1' 
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 Delete 991.2kB /tmp/nsmail.jpeg 
 E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (13: Permission denied) 
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 [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/apt/archives/rsyslog_7.4.4-1ubuntu2.3_i386.deb' 
 LibreOffice cannot be cleaned because it is currently running.  Close it, and try again. 
  
 Disk space recovered: 13.9MB 
 Files deleted: 40 
 Special operations: 15 
 Errors: 7



    2. Run the following two commands:


    Code:
     mike@mike-desktop14:~$ ls -al ~/.Xauthority
 -rw------- 1 mike mike 59 Oct  9 08:32 /home/mike/.Xauthority
 mike@mike-desktop14:~$ ls -alR ~/.config/bleachbit
 /home/mike/.config/bleachbit:
 total 12
 drwx------  2 mike mike 4096 Oct  1 17:04 .
 drwx------ 14 mike mike 4096 Oct  2 10:51 ..
 -rw-rw-r--  1 mike mike 1421 Oct 10 19:20 bleachbit.ini

    3. Run Bleachbit as root


    Code:
     ~$ kdesudo bleachbit
 kdesudo(18451) KDESu::KDESuPrivate::KCookie::getXCookie: No X authentication info set for display  ":0"  
 

 Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.  
 IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon  
 No protocol specified
 /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
   warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
 Could not open X display

    Nope, no go, won't open. Running as root AFTER running as user will not work.
    Maybe I don't understand what you asked to do.

    I stopped here.

    4. Run the same two commands as above
    Code:
    mike@mike-desktop14:~$ ls -al ~/.Xauthority
-rw------- 1 mike mike 59 Oct  9 08:32 /home/mike/.Xauthority
mike@mike-desktop14:~$ ls -alR ~/.config/bleachbit
/home/mike/.config/bleachbit:
total 12
drwx------  2 mike mike 4096 Oct  1 17:04 .
drwx------ 14 mike mike 4096 Oct  2 10:51 ..
-rw-rw-r--  1 mike mike 1421 Oct 10 19:20 bleachbit.ini
    5. Run Bleachbit as a normal user -- here's where the failure happens

    6. Run the same two commands as above

    Post the outputs of all three runs in a reply here.
    Last edited by Qqmike; Oct 10, 2014, 08:03 PM.
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  • SteveRiley
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    Let's examine a couple things. For those having the problem, please:

    1. Perform a successful run as a normal user.

    2. Run the following two commands:
    Code:
    ls -al ~/.Xauthority

ls -alR ~/.config/bleachbit
    3. Run Bleachbit as root

    4. Run the same two commands as above

    5. Run Bleachbit as a normal user -- here's where the failure happens

    6. Run the same two commands as above

    Post the outputs of all three runs in a reply here.
    Last edited by SteveRiley; Oct 10, 2014, 08:19 PM. Reason: brainfart post -- ignore the advice
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