Errors after logging in and strange behaviour from some applications

[AndyMcGowan]

Hi everybody,

I just re-installed Kubuntu by formatting "/" partition and "home" partition as well.

Now when I log in I got a couple of error popup (I can't remember them exactly, my Kubuntu PC is at home):

/home/.kde/share/dolphin.??? not writable

• the same for knotify and another file.
  
  morover, anything I try to change on settings or applications aren't saved.
  For example:
  
  • I change view properties in dolphin (i.e. show hidden files), I apply to every folder but nothing happens
  • I change an application icon but nothing changes
  • In Amarok, I set my library folder and when I close and re-open Amarok, it is not saved

It seemes like I can't modify files in /home/.kde
(for example, if I open dolphin with SUDO, I'm able to change dolphin settings and save them... but they're shown only if I use dolphin as superuser).

Don't know if it can help, but I can't either copy hidden files in /home/.kde

I'm not sure if I'm explaining this issue clearly
Any idea how to solve this

thanks a lot!
Andy

[OneLine]

Re: Errors after logging in and strange behaviour from some applications

File owner problem ?

Who is owning the files ?
Browse to the files and check/change the file owners to yourself. Dolphin, right click the file -> Properties -> Permissions. You might need to use the roots rights (kdesudo dolphin - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo).


Shotgun solution; chown

man chown

NAME
    chown - change file owner and group

SYNOPSIS
    chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...
    chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...

DESCRIPTION
    This manual page documents the GNU version of chown. chown changes the user and/or group ownership of
    each given file. If only an owner (a user name or numeric user ID) is given, that user is made the
    owner of each given file, and the files' group is not changed. If the owner is followed by a colon and
    a group name (or numeric group ID), with no spaces between them, the group ownership of the files is
    changed as well.  If a colon but no group name follows the user name, that user is made the owner of
    the files and the group of the files is changed to that user's login group. If the colon and group are
    given, but the owner is omitted, only the group of the files is changed; in this case, chown performs
    the same function as chgrp. If only a colon is given, or if the entire operand is empty, neither the
    owner nor the group is changed.

    -R, --recursive
       operate on files and directories recursively

    -v, --verbose
       output a diagnostic for every file processed

sudo chown -Rv <insert-username>.<insert-groupname> /home/<insert-username>/.kde

Example:

sudo chown -Rv oneline.oneline /home/oneline/.kde
[sudo] password for oneline:

ownership of `/home/oneline/.kde/env/gtk2-default-theme.rc.sh' retained as oneline:oneline
ownership of `/home/oneline/.kde/env/restore-dolphin-places.sh' retained as oneline:oneline
ownership of `/home/oneline/.kde/env' retained as oneline:oneline
ownership of `/home/oneline/.kde/socket-ammu2500oo' retained as oneline:oneline
ownership of `/home/oneline/.kde/shutdown' retained as oneline:oneline
ownership of `/home/oneline/.kde/Autostart' retained as oneline:oneline
...
and so on...

[AndyMcGowan]

Re: Errors after logging in and strange behaviour from some applications

Thanks, it worked on dolphin view properties.

one last thing (I'm kind on Kubuntu noob): I tried to change icons on some applications by right-clilcking on Kickoff and then "modifiy menu".

I changed Firefox icon and then saved but nothing happened.

Could it be something related to the same issue? How can I solve it?


I haven't tried to work around Amarok settings... I'll let you know about that!


thanks again