YaacovI
July 16th, 2008, 08:19 PM
I'm running 8.04 and I followed the instructions for creating a /home partition post-install at:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
When I tried to login, I got errors saying that the .dmrc file needed to have perms 644 and also that there was a problem accessing .ICEauthority . I used a Failsafe Terminal login and noticed that the owner of ~ and many of the files in it was root rather than my user. For each user on the system, I went to the home directory and did:
# sudo chown -R username *
# sudo chown -R username .*
# sudo chmod 644 .dmrc
# sudo chmod 644 .ICEauthority
I then checked using ls -l that the modifications had happened.
Now I can log in fine and I see the normal files on the desktop. However, the settings for various apps are missing. When I start firefox, it doesn't have my extensions, bookmarks, homepage, etc. When I start evolution, it asks me to create an account. The GNOME menu and theme settings are back to defaults.
I'd rather not have to go through app by app and restore these, especially when I know that the problem isn't specific to the app, but I can't figure out what else to do. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Yaacov
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The commands above are wrong, and should actually be:
# sudo chown -R username .
# sudo chmod 644 .dmrc
# sudo chmod 644 .ICEauthority
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
When I tried to login, I got errors saying that the .dmrc file needed to have perms 644 and also that there was a problem accessing .ICEauthority . I used a Failsafe Terminal login and noticed that the owner of ~ and many of the files in it was root rather than my user. For each user on the system, I went to the home directory and did:
# sudo chown -R username *
# sudo chown -R username .*
# sudo chmod 644 .dmrc
# sudo chmod 644 .ICEauthority
I then checked using ls -l that the modifications had happened.
Now I can log in fine and I see the normal files on the desktop. However, the settings for various apps are missing. When I start firefox, it doesn't have my extensions, bookmarks, homepage, etc. When I start evolution, it asks me to create an account. The GNOME menu and theme settings are back to defaults.
I'd rather not have to go through app by app and restore these, especially when I know that the problem isn't specific to the app, but I can't figure out what else to do. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Yaacov
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The commands above are wrong, and should actually be:
# sudo chown -R username .
# sudo chmod 644 .dmrc
# sudo chmod 644 .ICEauthority