On 2022-04-17 at 14:07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:59:44AM -0700, mwoodpatr...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Many thanks for the response. Much appreciated >> >> Permissions look ok >> >> ls -ld /tmp /tmp/.X11-unix >> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 09:31 /tmp >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 17 09:31 /tmp/.X11-unix -> >> /mnt/wslg/.X11-unix >> >> ls -ld /mnt/wslg/.X11-unix >> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 60 Apr 17 09:31 /mnt/wslg/.X11-unix >> >> I have write access to both locations > > That looks incredibly not OK. You're doing something unusual, and > you are going to have to deal with the consequences of that. This > may include running afoul of various things like AppArmor that are > restricting access to specific directory trees, which you are no longer > in. > > I can't imagine what benefit you think you're deriving from this > convoluted setup, but whatever it is, I hope it's worth the pain you're > going to experience, trying to track down all of the things you've > broken.
I don't think this is something he broke himself; from the little I've found, this appears to be something that's recommended or even required for WSLg (the Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI) to work. See e.g. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg/issues/193#issuecomment-841341256 for one indication that that may be the case. It is, of course, always possible that other software might not be compatible with doing this - and, honestly, if I were trying to debug this I'd probably start by getting the source of TigerVNC and experimenting with changing things around there. > (You've also forgotten the sticky bit on your mounted directory.) While that's certainly not ideal, I can't see how it could cause the exhibited behavior in this case; from what I can find reading up on the sticky bit to refresh my memory, having it unset should just result in being able to do *more* things with/inside the directory than would be the case if it were set. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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