Hi everybody,
I am not sure that I am addressing the right forum. If its not the right one, please, root me to right forum.
I’m running Gome Evolution 3.48.0 under Opensuse Tumbleweed (Gnome 44.0 with Wayland, 6.2.29-1). Evolution runs very well under both a user and root account .
I’m facing the following issue:
From a user account à use su - to switch to root . Just having typed the root password an empty occurence of Evolution is displaid as if I have just installed it and I had to create a first email account :
rene@localhost:~> su -
** (evolution:8052): WARNING **: 14:26:33.690: Failed to canonicalize path /root/.local/share/evolution/preview-plugins: No such file or directory
** (evolution:8052): CRITICAL **: 14:26:33.690: Attempted to add disallowed path to sandbox: /root/.local/share/evolution/preview-plugins
I don’t want to start Evolution any time I use su -, neither to initiate a new customization.
This appeared after having another issue with Evolution, with was solved. I may have made wrong actions that I am not able to remind.
I’m seeking your help to solve this issue.
Many thanks and regards.
René
marel
April 9, 2023, 12:14pm
#2
The problem is I think Evolution is started/active for the root user, or do you want that to happen?
I do not immediately see how that can happen as consequence of issuing “su” but maybe it is time to start using “sudo” instead of “su” . Does that also trigger the problem?
Why are you running it under root??? In general that sound like a bad idea. You are bypassing much security
Home for root is in /root not /home. This could be the issue.
Hi Marel,
Thank you for your message.
I DO NOT want Evolution be active for the root user. This behaviour is new. Before few days ago this did not occure and “su -” worked correctly and did not start Evolution.
Which configuration files or other files I could browse where Evolution could be set to be active upon this “su -” command?
I tried to see Evolution config files? I’m not sure to have exhaustively took a loo at them.
Are they some configuration files for su?
Thanks and regards.
René
hui
April 9, 2023, 6:14pm
#5
Maybe you have some alias defined…
marel
April 9, 2023, 7:32pm
#6
What happened in between? Did you run a “zypper dup”?
How about sudo, did you give that a try?
Can you post the output of “ps aux | grep -i evolution” running as user and running as root?
Hi Marel,
I did run a zypper dup : nothing changed, “su -” starts Evolution
Sudo runs correctly without triggering Evolution
Here is the output of ps aux | grep -i evolution
rene@localhost:~> ps aux | grep -i evolution as user
as root
rene@localhost:~> su rootLinux command "su -" and gnome Evolution under Tumbleweed - #6 by marel
I have noted that “sudo root” works correctly without triggering Evolution
Speculation from me…is there a .desktop file associated with it located in /etc/xdg/autostart?
Hi,
Please find here the list of desktop files in /etc/xdg/autostart:
localhost:/etc/xdg/autostart # ls -l
René
I’m not a Gnome or Evolution user, but the only one that I note is related to Evolution is “org.gnome.Evolution-alarm-notify.desktop”. How is it configured?
@renepaul Hi, you opening post you state “Evolution runs very well under both a user and root account”?
I see no instance of an evolution process running as root user when using su -.
host:~ # ps -ef | grep evolution
username 2120 1813 0 09:14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/evolution-source-registry
username 2183 1813 0 09:14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/evolution-calendar-factory
username 2269 1813 0 09:14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/evolution-addressbook-factory
username 2418 2049 0 09:14 ? 00:00:00 /usr/libexec/evolution-data-server/evolution-data-server/evolution-alarm-notify
root 15607 4665 0 19:02 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto evolution
I don’t user evolution either…
Did you login as root user via gdm at some point? What configuration files are in /root/ ?
ls .local/share/ .cache .config
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