missing folder -- is it critical?

[Lloydb39]

After an automatic backup, I got a message that said it could not back this file "/home/lloyd/.config/nautilus-actions" and advised me to make sure I could open it. Turns out I couldn't find a lloyd folder at all, but there is a config folder in "home" with a "nautilus-actions" file, which I couldn't open because it said I do not have the permissions.
Obviously something is wrong and I'm wondering if it is related to the error message about a bad file I get on every reboot. In any case, does anyone have a fix or do I even need one?

[steeldriver]

The directory that nautilus displays as Home (note the capital H) is actually the current user's /home/username/ directory - so it sounds like it's the right file, but the wrong permissions (or ownership): what do you get if you open a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-t) and enter



ls -l /home/lloyd/.config/nautilus-actions

[Lloydb39]

I get:
ls: cannot open directory /home/lloyd/.config/nautilus-actions: Permission denied

[steeldriver]

OK then try



ls -ld /home/lloyd/.config/nautilus-actions


or



ls -l /home/lloyd/.config | grep nautilus-actions


or just



ls -l /home/lloyd/.config


and look to see the owner and permission flags: basically everything inside /home/lloyd should be owned by 'lloyd', if it's not then we will need to fix that

[Lloydb39]

lloyd@linux:~$ ls -l /home/lloyd/.config

total 212
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 11 08:16 akonadi
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Apr 7 2014 autostart
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 May 31 2014 backintime
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 1 2014 bleachbit
drwx------ 7 lloyd lloyd 4096 May 20 21:26 chromium
drwx------ 3 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 25 2012 compiz-1
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 11 08:18 dconf
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 25 2013 Empathy
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 26 2012 enchant
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Feb 4 19:13 eog
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 9 11:57 evince
drwx------ 3 lloyd lloyd 4096 Nov 1 2014 evolution
drwxr-xr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Mar 27 2014 gedit
drwxr-xr-x 3 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 25 2012 gnome-control-center
drwxr-xr-x 3 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 25 2012 gnome-disk-utility
drwxrwxr-x 4 lloyd lloyd 4096 Apr 16 07:41 gnome-mplayer
drwxr-xr-x 3 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 25 2012 gnome-session
drwxr-xr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Nov 1 2014 goa-1.0
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 25 2013 Google
drwx------ 9 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 11 08:18 google-chrome
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 4 2014 google-googletalkplugin
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 10 14:10 gtk-2.0
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 11 08:17 gtk-3.0
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Oct 27 2013 hotkeys
drwx------ 3 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 25 2012 ibus
drwxr-xr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Nov 1 2014 libaccounts-glib
drwxr-xr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jul 28 2014 libimobiledevice
drwxrwxr-x 4 lloyd lloyd 4096 Nov 2 2014 libreoffice
drwx------ 3 lloyd lloyd 4096 May 20 16:45 menus
drwxr-xr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 11 08:18 nautilus
d-wxr-xr-T 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 11 08:18 nautilus-actions
-rw------- 1 lloyd lloyd 30 Jul 5 2014 pavucontrol.ini
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Nov 1 2014 pulse
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 27 2012 Skype
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 May 20 15:28 software-center
drwxr-xr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Nov 1 2014 synapse
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 May 5 11:23 totem
drwxr-xr-x 5 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 6 2013 transmission
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lloyd lloyd 21274 Jun 10 08:51 Trolltech.conf
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 25 2012 ubuntuone
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Nov 3 2014 ubuntu-ui-toolkit
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Apr 24 06:13 unity
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Dec 25 2012 update-notifier
drwx------ 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Nov 1 2014 upstart
-rw------- 1 lloyd lloyd 632 Dec 25 2012 user-dirs.dirs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 lloyd lloyd 5 Dec 25 2012 user-dirs.locale
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Mar 19 07:21 vlc
drwxrwxr-x 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Feb 1 2013 yelp
lloyd@linux:~$
It doesn't show on this but in the terminal "nautilus-actions" is highlighted....

[Lloydb39]

and this is what grep produced:
d-wxr-xr-T 2 lloyd lloyd 4096 Jun 11 08:18 nautilus-actions

[steeldriver]

Hmm... that seems to be a bug (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-actions/+question/194838) (or at least an acknowledged issue)

I don't know why that directory should have such (on the face of it) strange permission bits. Let's see if someone more knowledgeable can chime in.

[Lloydb39]

Should I try "chmod u+r $HOME/.config/nautilus-actions/" ?

[steeldriver]

Yes that should work (as far as the original backup error is concerned) - I was just reluctant to suggest it without understanding why the permissions are set that way - I don't know what the contents of that directory are used for

[Lloydb39]

After trying it, I got the same response to grep. I guess I'm stuck with it.

[mc4man]

Typically it just contains nautilus-actions.conf which it's just a default + any user changes config file. The permissions are usually drwxr-x---
I'd just delete the folder, open nautilus-actions & it will create a new one.
(- actions are stored elsewhere so deleting the folder & .conf has no effect there..

[Habitual]

ls -ld /home/lloyd/.config output please sir.