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Kate crashes while clicking Open

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I am running on Ubuntu 12.04 I recently noticed that Kate 4.8.4 which have been installed in my 64-bit PC is crashing whenever I try to open a file in it. It shows no problem when I open files via terminal.

It displays the following in the terminal while crashing.

trying to create local folder /home/myusername/.kde/tmp-MYPCNAME: Permission denied

trying to create local folder /home/myusername/.kde/socket-MYPCNAME: Permission denied

trying to create local folder /home/myusername/.kde/tmp-MYPCNAME: Permission denied

QFile::remove: Empty or null file name

kdeinit4: Aborting. bind() failed: Permission denied

Could not bind to socket '/home/myusername/.kde/socket-MYPCNAME/kdeinit4__0'

trying to create local folder /home/myusername/.kde/cache-MYPCNAME: Permission denied

trying to create local folder /home/myusername/.kde/share: Permission denied

kate(3237) fileModule: Failed to load configured file module "kfilemodule"

KCrash: Application 'kate' crashing...

KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit

sock_file=/home/myusername/.kde/socket-MYPCNAME/kdeinit4__0

Warning: connect() failed: : Permission denied

KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi directly

trying to create local folder /home/myusername/.kde/cache-MYPCNAME: Permission denied

QFile::remove: Empty or null file name

drkonqi(3251)/KSharedDataCache KSharedDataCache::Private::mapSharedMemory: Failed to establish shared memory mapping, will fallback to private memory -- memory usage will increase

From the above I understand that this is a problem of user privileges. I checked running Kate from the terminal as root it works fine.

As I am new to linux can someone point me in a direction that could solve the problem.

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answered 3 Years ago rialhirt · Accepted Answer

Change the ownership of the .kde folder with these console commands:

cd ~

sudo chown -R yourusername .kde

Replace yourusername with your actual user name. You will be prompted for the sudo password.

This error usually happens as a result of running graphical programs (like kate) as root directly with sudo, which can cause root to create its own configuration files in your home directory (or effectively take ownership of the ones that are already there). Instead, a graphical sudo frontend, such as kdesudo (or gksu/gksudo) should always be used when running graphical programs as root.