[tde-users] Re: tdelauncher DCOPserver, again

When an issue is resolved it is helpful to post that fact to the thread so that (1) people don't spend time trying to think of solutions for you and (2) people who experience the same problem can try your solution :

If you obtain different results on successive installs of the same software to the same disks you may have a disk problem. Hi André, It looks like you have tracked the problem to a point where I cannot help you much. Only a root process can change an andre-owned directory to root-owned. TDM and X may be running as root but all of TDE proper should be running as andre unless and until you deliberately start something as root such as a root konsole. I would try to figure out whether the directory is created with the correct owner and/or what is changing it. That's probably not going to be easy. A couple of tricks which may or may not help: (1) After the directory is in a good state "chattr +i ..." it and see if anything later complains when it tries to change the owner. Be sure to undo this later or it may create more problems. (2) Create a little script to run in a loop in a konsole to check the directory every second and alert you when the ownership has changed :