Bug#732209: libpam-systemd: dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied.

[Miklos Quartus]

Package: libpam-systemd
Version: 215-7
Followup-For: Bug #732209

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Hi Vlad , et al.,

Thanks for the clarification about sending references to earlier cases,
when this bug surfaced. Now, I am sending a follow-up for this bug as it
still happens in the latest up-to-date Jessie. I can still reproduce it
at least in two different ways. See the steps how to reproduce it below.

Pre-requisites.
a. have a fat32 formatted usb flash drive ready
b. your user should be just a regular user on your system without root
privileges

Steps to reproduce.
1. Log in with your regular user into your GNOME session.
2. Open up a root terminal by typing Windows key -> (type 'root' in the
search bar and hit Enter to the Root Terminal icon)
3. Type 'watch -n 1 ls -l /run/user/1000/dconf/user' as root to see when
the permission of the file changes automatically. Instead of '1000',
replace the number of your login user account. In my case it's 1000.
4. Open up the 'dconf Editor' by typing the Windows key -> (type 'dconf'
in the search bar and hit Enter to the 'dconf Editor' icon.
5. Close the dconf Editor.
6. See the file permission's change in the root terminal window.

When this happens, it locks your entire GNOME session rendering your
graphical user interface unusable. Unfortunately, I don't have a patch
to fix it. 

Vlad, 
BTW, this only happens with GNOME sessions. With other window managers
(e.g. LXDE, Openbox) it does *not*. Therefore, I do not think it's a
systemd bug, rather it's related to GNOME. Do you agree to reassign this
bug against either the 'gnome-session' or the 'gnome-shell' package?

The related package versions I am still able to reproduce this bug are:

gnome-session	3.14.0-2
gnome-desktop-environment	1:3.14+1
gnome-shell	3.14.1-1

Kind regards,
Miklos


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libpam-systemd depends on:
ii  dbus               1.8.12-1
ii  libc6              2.19-13
ii  libcap2            1:2.24-6
ii  libpam-runtime     1.1.8-3.1
ii  libpam0g           1.1.8-3.1
ii  multiarch-support  2.19-13
ii  systemd            215-7
ii  systemd-sysv       215-7

libpam-systemd recommends no packages.

libpam-systemd suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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