McFatty
November 18th, 2010, 02:43 AM
Hi,
Experience with Ubuntu: I know basic commands in the terminal. (ls, pwd, cd, sudo halt, mkdir, and a few others)
Premise:
My terminal opened with this line:
Bilbo@host:/$
I wanted it to open with THIS line:
Frodo@host:/$
So I went to the System menu, administration, user options. I'm not exactly sure of every button I pushed but the general gist of what I did was change the username in the home folder from Bilbo to Frodo.
A prompt came up and asked if I wanted to delete the old folder (the Bilbo folder). It also said that if I was duplicating it but giving it a new name (Frodo), it was ok to delete the old one (Bilbo) because I would still have all the files. I checked the box that said "Delete old folder." Then I clicked the button that said copy folder under new name (Frodo).
Problem:
The system boots. I can log in. The desktop is empty. Nothing there. I can open a terminal with ctrl+alt+T.
Upon login, 3 windows pop up.
The First:
Could not update ICEauthority file /home/Bilbo/.ICEauthority
The Second:
Problem with configuration server. (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)
The Third:
Nautilus could not create the following required folders /home/Bilbo/Desktop, /home/Bilbo/.nautilus. Before running Nautilus create these folders, or set permissions such that Nautilus can create them.
Now, I went to the library to try to fix this and found this page
http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8061988
so I tried to run the commands there. The only one that worked was
sudo chmod 644 /home/Frodo/.ICEauthority
How can I fix this?
Peace and Love,
-McFatty
Experience with Ubuntu: I know basic commands in the terminal. (ls, pwd, cd, sudo halt, mkdir, and a few others)
Premise:
My terminal opened with this line:
Bilbo@host:/$
I wanted it to open with THIS line:
Frodo@host:/$
So I went to the System menu, administration, user options. I'm not exactly sure of every button I pushed but the general gist of what I did was change the username in the home folder from Bilbo to Frodo.
A prompt came up and asked if I wanted to delete the old folder (the Bilbo folder). It also said that if I was duplicating it but giving it a new name (Frodo), it was ok to delete the old one (Bilbo) because I would still have all the files. I checked the box that said "Delete old folder." Then I clicked the button that said copy folder under new name (Frodo).
Problem:
The system boots. I can log in. The desktop is empty. Nothing there. I can open a terminal with ctrl+alt+T.
Upon login, 3 windows pop up.
The First:
Could not update ICEauthority file /home/Bilbo/.ICEauthority
The Second:
Problem with configuration server. (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)
The Third:
Nautilus could not create the following required folders /home/Bilbo/Desktop, /home/Bilbo/.nautilus. Before running Nautilus create these folders, or set permissions such that Nautilus can create them.
Now, I went to the library to try to fix this and found this page
http://art.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8061988
so I tried to run the commands there. The only one that worked was
sudo chmod 644 /home/Frodo/.ICEauthority
How can I fix this?
Peace and Love,
-McFatty