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DONT RUN AS ROOT #6

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phil294 opened this issue Sep 5, 2022 · 1 comment
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DONT RUN AS ROOT #6

phil294 opened this issue Sep 5, 2022 · 1 comment
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phil294 commented Sep 5, 2022

I just removed the Gui part from installer.ahk and then ran it with sudo rights and now my display server keeps crashing and coredumping and the entire system is broken. Maybe because of some of the xdg/mime commands, maybe because of the tool itself, I don't know.

No idea wtf is going on, and imma go off eating pizza now, so I guess this is a warning not to use root privileges until this is resolved.
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phil294 commented Sep 17, 2022

the reason was update-mime-database, which when run as root apparently reduces read permission for other users of /usr/share/mime, which then makes all gtk apps crash horribly. This code is not pushed, so everything was and is safe.

(here's the experimental branch)

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disallow running the installer as root
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this can crash unrelated gtk applications such as xfce4-session and thus brick the whole system. See also #6

I thought I had prevented this from happening already but apparently all it took was a `sudo ahk_x11` and click INSTALL
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