Re: Bug in the latest gnome-core 1.4.0.3

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Christian Marillat <marillat christian wanadoo fr> writes:
> 
> I found a bug related to read/write access to the /tmp/languages file.
> 
> The panel creates /tmp/languages when it starts up, and leaves it there. If
> it can't open it (because it exists, because another user dared to start
> panel before on the same machine), it dies.  This renders the whole of gnome
> unusable on a multiuser box.
> 
> This is a grave bug (or even critical, as everyone else that uses the box
> has *no* idea how to use it without gnome, so the whole system is useless).
> 
> What is the solution ?
> 

Get George to read "man mkstemp"?

/me runs

Havoc