Re: SETEDIT: bugs

[Thiago F.G. A. <tf...@za...>]

I have something to add about this. It happened again after I send this report. But this time it 
had nothing to do with being root or at the home directory.

I was logged as myself and I was in a "regular" directory (I mean, not home), with some files, a 
desktop and a project file. I was doing something at the shell, then I started the editor and a 
message box poped up saying "Wrong desktop file". Then I exited the editor and started to 
investigate to see what happened. I found out that the desktop and the project files in the 
current directory and the desktop file in my home directory were truncated to 0 bytes.

I am absolutely clueless as to what may have caused this. It doesn't happen everytime, but it 
happens once in a while. It happened twice.

Thiago

On 11/10/01 17:38:41, salvador wrote:

>Thiago wrote:
>> >> When I run setedit as root, my options are overwriten (Don't make
>backups, Don't save desktop
>> >> files, ...) They go back to the defaults.
>> >
>> >Sorry but I don't understand it, please clarify. The user `root' have
>their own settings.
>>
>> Ok. Here's exactly what I did. I was logged as 'thiago':
>>
>> su root
>> e
>> exit
>>
>> After this, the options of user 'thiago' go back to the defaults.
>
>I couldn't reproduce it, but I have an idea of what could happend.
>I think your user have a central desktop file and it was stored in ~/

Yes, this is correct.

>And I think your root isn't using a central desktop file so you used su
>when you were in /home/thiago. Then the root loaded the default desktop
>file for Thiago and at exit saved it as root. So then you tried to run
>the editor as thiago, as the file was owned by root and was read-only the
>editor said "Wrong desktop file", and then you needed to delete the desktop
>file losing your configuration.
>That's the only situation I could generate, and is fixed in 0.4.49 because
>now the default desktop file is stored in ~/.setedit avoiding such a mess.