Hi, It's a regression in the pam module for systemd: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753882
It affects all distributions afaik and it can make any app/package using XDG_RUNTIME_DIR crash if it's used with root privileges (including dconf)... This is a huge bug. I think the most relevant person to look into this on your side is Martin Pitt. Let us know if we can help on our side. As always we're available at #linuxmint-dev on irc.spotchat.org. Here's a quick way to troubleshoot it: echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR sudo su - echo $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR In raring, this returns different paths. In saucy they collide. This is because /etc/pam.d/common-session* no longer use Ubuntu's libpam-xdg-support (xdg_support.so) but the systemd pam module. As far as I understand it from the https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753882, this isn't actually a bug in systemd, but a change by design. We're considering solutions in Mint and we'd love to talk to you about it. We've a few ideas we can run by you and it would be better for everyone if we tackled this the same way in Saucy/Petra and got involved in the upstream discussion. ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #753882 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753882 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1197395 Title: /run/user/$ID/pulse owned by root and not by the user To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/1197395/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
