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WTFman
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 Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject: Cannot write to home directory...please help! |
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I'm not sure how it happened, I was playing around with xfce (I usually use KDE) and it wouldn't let me save files to my home directory. Now KDE will not even start because my home directory seems unwritable. it's possible I overloaded my home dir, but I just cleaned it out. Can antone tell me how to get write permission back to the home directory?
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dkmweeks
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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This could be a pam (pluggable athentication module) issue, but I don't know, I've never used Xfce. It's named to poorly for me to even look.
How much do you really know about what you're doing? This sounds like maybe you're trouncing around as root?
How expendible is your account? (brand new vs. indispensible)
And tell us LOTS more about what you had, what you did, and how you're failing to startkde. |
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WTFman
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| dkmweeks wrote: | This could be a pam (pluggable athentication module) issue, but I don't know, I've never used Xfce. It's named to poorly for me to even look.
How much do you really know about what you're doing? |
Little to none! I'm a complete noob when it comes to Linux! I'm fairly sure I need to chmod it somehow though.
| dkmweeks wrote: | | This sounds like maybe you're trouncing around as root? |
My momma told me never to log in as root.
| dkmweeks wrote: | | How expendible is your account? (brand new vs. indispensible) |
If you mean "is reformatting and reinstalling a viable option?" I suppose the answer is yes, however I'll only do that as a last resort.
| dkmweeks wrote: | | And tell us LOTS more about what you had, what you did, and how you're failing to startkde. |
I type my name and password into the login manager, choose KDE as my destop enviornment and hit login. it stars the splashscreen, but stops to display this message:
| Quote: | | no write acess to $HOME directory (/home/<me>) KDE is unable to start |
I click ok and it goes back to the login screen after displaying the following message:
| Quote: | | could not start ksm server. Check your installation |
As for what I did, I emerged gentoo artwork, and started playing around with the icons. Some of them semed improperly sized when placed on the xfce pannel so I downloaded the iconset from gentoo.org so I could freely Gimp them (in retrospect that was probably a bad move, and may have overloaded my directory) I fired up gimp and much to my shock I was unable to save anything in my /home directory. I deleted the files in my home directory, but that didn't seem to fix the damage that was done. now KDE won't load, and xfce loads very slowly, and it seems I still cannot write to my home directory.
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Headrush
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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I have seen this before that the owner of your home directory gets changed.
What is the output of
You should see entries similar to this: | Code: |
drwxr-xr-x 72 jubenvi users 3264 Jun 26 18:43 jubenvi
drwxr-xr-x 2 jpeter users 48 Apr 22 09:43 jpeter |
The owner of the folder should be the same as foldername. If it isn't try this as root: | Code: | | chown username:users foldername |
Change username and foldername to match your account. |
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WTFman
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| Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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thx, seems to have worked! Updating system in hopes that it will catch anything else that might have messed up.
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