Permission denied

[hedmo]

my day do day user have a Permission denied to save or create how do i fix it
cant even get to startx .Permission denied to save or create ICEauthority and Xauthority

[paulbiz]

Be sure the disk is not out of free space

[Hu]

[hedmo]

mybox ~ # myh=~/.Xauthority; while [ "$myh" != '' ]; do ls -ld "$myh"; myh=${myh%/*}; done; ls -ld /.
-rw------- 1 root root 99 Apr 19 22:28 /root/.Xauthority
drwx------ 22 root root 4096 Apr 27 20:24 /root
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Apr 23 21:22 /.
mybox ~ # login
mybox login: hedmo
Password:
Last login: Tue Apr 27 20:23:42 GMT 2010 on tty1
hedmo@mybox ~ $ myh=~/.Xauthority; while [ "$myh" != '' ]; do ls -ld "$myh"; myh=${myh%/*}; done; ls -ld /.
-rw------- 1 hedmo users 189 Apr 13 19:23 /home/hedmo/.Xauthority
drwxr-xr-x 25 hedmo users 4096 Apr 27 20:24 /home/hedmo
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Apr 18 11:01 /home
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Apr 23 21:22 /.
hedmo@mybox ~ $

[Hu]

That looks normal. Please post a transcript from the moment you login to getty through to when you receive the error about unable to create Xauthority.

[hedmo]

the error comes when i hit startx
i am using kde and it comes when
the statlogos loads kde trow me
out to xterm

[hedmo]

its not just .Xauthority its ever file in /home/hedmo that have Permission denied like when i quit mc i got another error

Cannot save file /home/hedmo/.mc/ini:
Failed to create file '/home/hedmo/.mc/ini.6OZYBV': Permission denied

[Inodoro_Pereyra]

Is your /home mounted with read-write permissions? Output of mount command should say something like this:

[Genone]

If you have strace installed try:

[hedmo]

okej i dont realy know guys what you are saying to me but i will try to make something of it

Genone i dont have strace installed.is this something i need
i just have one user

mybox hedmo # ls /home
hedmo lost+found mythtv
mybox hedmo #

but when i make something like installing or some thing like that i hit (in a terminal)

hedmo@mybox ~ $ su
Password:
mybox hedmo #

if this is bad thing

Inodoro_Pereyra the only thing i know about "/home mounted" is that i am using raid0 and lvm and this is my fstab
/dev/vg/home /home ext3 noatime 1 2

and

mybox hedmo # chown -R hedmo:hedmo /home/hedmo
chown: invalid group: `hedmo:hedmo'

[hedmo]

mybox / # myh=~/.Xauthority; while [ "$myh" != '' ]; do ls -ldn "$myh"; myh=${myh%/*}; done; ls -ldn /.
-rw------- 1 0 0 99 Apr 19 22:28 /root/.Xauthority
drwx------ 24 0 0 4096 Apr 28 17:29 /root
drwxr-xr-x 22 0 0 4096 Apr 23 21:22 /.
mybox / # login
mybox login: hedmo
Password:
Last login: Wed Apr 28 18:38:23 GMT 2010 on pts/0
hedmo@mybox ~ $ myh=~/.Xauthority; while [ "$myh" != '' ]; do ls -ldn "$myh"; myh=${myh%/*}; done; ls -ldn /.
-rw------- 1 1000 100 189 Apr 13 19:23 /home/hedmo/.Xauthority
drwxr-xr-x 25 1000 100 4096 Apr 28 17:33 /home/hedmo
drwxr-xr-x 5 0 0 4096 Apr 18 11:01 /home
drwxr-xr-x 22 0 0 4096 Apr 23 21:22 /.
hedmo@mybox ~ $ id root
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),11(floppy),20(dialout),26(tape),27(video)
hedmo@mybox ~ $ id hedmo
uid=1000(hedmo) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),7(lp),10(wheel),18(audio),19(cdrom),27(video),85(usb),250(portage),16(cron),1004(plugdev),1006(vboxusers)
hedmo@mybox ~ $

[Genone]

Ok, nothing wrong/weird with the UIDs. As for strace, it's a very useful tool to pinpoint the exact error location, though you have to know how to use it to get any useful results, and it doesn't magically tell you why the error appears. Not sure it would be very helpful in this case, but it's always a good thing to have around.

Btw, do you normally start a root shell and then use `login` to get to your user account, or is that just for demonstration purposes? Because that's rather unusual, and I don't know if `login` really works as intended in that use case.

[hedmo]

at the good 90`s i was using dos so when a switch from win to gentoo it was a nostalgic feeling to start at the dos-promt (console)

but when i makeing replys i am in a terminal at kde with my root at the moment and it works with login and out

and every thing i do i make it in the console

BTW tryed another od thing loged in as user and make comand sudo startx and i got in to my user desktop but some of his thins was as in root desktop
so i got out right away

[hedmo]

i have lxpanel installed and i can start it with my user but still not kde and save mc