Bug#421599: gnome-screenshot hangs for second user

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 421599 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427870
thanks

On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 09:02 -0400, O'Connor, Russell wrote:
> The first user to use gnome-screenshot after a reboot has no problem.
> When the next user invokes gnome-screenshot, it will hang after the Save
> button is clicked, rather than saving the screenshot and exiting.  The
> first user continues to have no problem.
> 
> I believe that the problem is that gnome-screenshot
> creates /tmp/gnome-screenshot/ with 700 permissions, owned by the first
> user.  Since this directory is deleted on boot, the first user has no
> problem, but subsequent users cannot write to it.
> 
> I suggest that /tmp/gnome-screenshot/ be created with 1777 permissions.

Hi,

It looks like this has already been reported upstream, and there's a
suggested fix,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427870

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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