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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: LD_PRELOAD question
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2007-05-24 9:17:25
Message-ID: 200705241117.25532.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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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 :(.

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