[Utnubu-maintainers] Bug#382452: alacarte: check permissions on ~/.config

[Shannon Eric Peevey]

Package: alacarte
Version: 0.8-5
Followup-For: Bug #382452


When I was having the same problem with menu changes not taking effect, I ran /usr/bin/alacarte in pdb, and got the following output:

speeves at pitea:~/downloads/debian/alacarte-0.8/src/Alacarte$ pdb /usr/bin/alacarte
> /usr/bin/alacarte(20)?()
-> from Alacarte.GnomeFront import GnomeFront
(Pdb) n
> /usr/bin/alacarte(22)?()
-> def main():
(Pdb) c
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 609, in on_entry_visible_toggled
    self.save()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 321, in save
    self.app_handler.save()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/Alacarte/PyXDGMenuHandler.py", line 157, in save
    xdg.MenuEditor.MenuEditor.save(self)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 61, in save
    self.__saveEntries(self.menu)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 316, in __saveEntries
    self.__saveEntries(entry)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 314, in __saveEntries
    entry.save()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/Menu.py", line 405, in save
    self.DesktopEntry.write()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/IniFile.py", line 278, in write
    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(filename))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 156, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 159, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/speeves/.local/share'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 609, in on_entry_visible_toggled
    self.save()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/Alacarte/GnomeFront.py", line 321, in save
    self.app_handler.save()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/Alacarte/PyXDGMenuHandler.py", line 157, in save
    xdg.MenuEditor.MenuEditor.save(self)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 62, in save
    self.__saveMenu()
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/xdg/MenuEditor.py", line 321, in __saveMenu
    fd = open(self.filename, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/speeves/.config/menus/gnome-applications.menu'

Once I chown'd the folders to myuser.mygroup, then everything started to work.

I'm guessing that I started alacarte with sudo the first time, which chown'd everything to root.root.  Should the documentation note that this is a per-user tool?

speeves

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages alacarte depends on:
ii  python                     2.4.3-11      An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-glade2              2.8.6-5       GTK+ bindings: Glade support
ii  python-gnome2              2.12.4-4      Python bindings for the GNOME desk
ii  python-gtk2                2.8.6-5       Python bindings for the GTK+ widge
ii  python-libxml2             2.6.26.dfsg-3 Python bindings for the GNOME XML 
ii  python-support             0.4.3         automated rebuilding support for p
ii  python-xdg                 0.15-1.1      A python library to access freedes

alacarte recommends no packages.

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