Devuan bug report logs - #594
plasma-workspace: KRunner starts programs in the filesystem root

Package: plasma-workspace; Maintainer for plasma-workspace is (unknown); Source for plasma-workspace is src:plasma-workspace.

Reported by: Hannah Rittich <void@rittich.net>

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 17:03:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: debian

Found in version 4:5.20.5-6

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/991439

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Subject: Re: bug#594: plasma-workspace: KRunner starts programs in the
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From: Hannah Rittich <void@rittich.net>
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Hi,

> If even then it is still not present on the clean bullseye
> sysvinit install, I suspect a configuration change on the Devuan
> system. AFAIK all the relevant packages are the same between
> chimaera and bullseye.

it seems that I cannot change the init system on Bullseye to reproduce 
the error, because if I try to install sysvinit-core, apt wants to 
remove the plasma-workspace package.

Is there something I can try, to reproduce the problem on Debian? Shall 
I still report to Debian's BTS while stating it can only be reproduced 
on Devuan?

I have done some further investigation. If you start krunner on 
Bullseye, the krunner process is owned by "/lib/systemd/systemd --user" 
and the working directory is my home directory. On Chimaera, krunner is 
owned by init and the working directory is the file-system root.

As a workaround I have created a wrapper script, which launches krunner 
in the user's home directory. Executing the following fixes the problem.

    mv /usr/bin/krunner /usr/bin/krunner.orig
    cat > /usr/bin/krunner << EOS
    #!/bin/sh
    cd "\$HOME"
    exec /usr/bin/krunner.orig "$@"
    EOS
    chmod a+x /usr/bin/krunner

(Note, to reproduce the error, I have also installed a fresh version of 
Chimaera into a VM.)

Hannah

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Devuan bug report logs - #594 plasma-workspace: KRunner starts programs in the filesystem root

Devuan bug report logs - #594
plasma-workspace: KRunner starts programs in the filesystem root