From kde-devel Thu May 24 09:17:25 2007 From: Lubos Lunak Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:17:25 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: LD_PRELOAD question Message-Id: <200705241117.25532.l.lunak () suse ! cz> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=117999828919040 On Monday 21 of May 2007, Dirección wrote: > Hi all, > > this is the first time we write to this list. We made this question through > #kde-devel with no response, so we make it here. Thanks in advance. > > We've a doubt about KDE start process. If we trace environment variables in > startkde script we find that scripts in .kde/env are correctly executed and > environment variables are set but after that, of all the variables we set > there, there is one that does not survive in KDE session itself: > LD_PRELOAD    any idea why is this happening? I think it is because the start_kdeinit setuid wrapper. If you remove the setuid bit it should work fine. I have no idea how to solve this properly though, without leaving KDE at the mercy of the broken OOM-killer again :(. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http//www.suse.cz >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<