100% CPU - kdeinit / klauncher

[Brian T. Schellenberger]

On Saturday 03 August 2002 06:31 pm, Tim wrote:
| On Saturday 03 August 2002 04:04 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
| > Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
| > > On Saturday 03 August 2002 10:36 am, Felix Seeger wrote:
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| > > | Don't understand what you mean.
| > > | "Connection to localhost has been lost" is a message from what ?
| > >
| > > When I do CTRL-ESC, it pops up a window that says "system guard -
| > > process table" and then on top of that pops up an error dialog with
| > > that message;
|
| the
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| > > rest of the window is blank.
| >
| > We are guessing :-|
|
| I have only had success at running SysGuard as root.

Yes, I can run it as root!

I tried to do the obvious thing and setuid /usr/local/bin/ksysguard, but then 
it refuses to run at all, saying that the KDE libraries are not designed to 
run setuid root.

The ksysguardd (daemon process, I presume) is already setgid kmem, which would 
seem to be correct.  I'm not sure what protection is really provided by 
refused to run the KDE libraries as suid root but allowing them to be run 
directly by root, but I might just work around that protection by turning it 
into a script that invokes "op" or something.

Thanks for the basic hint.

PS: Re-running kdeinit, of course, doesn't make any difference.  It's the 
permissions that are lacking.  Possibly a FreeBSD thing.


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