missing Font?

[reggler]

Any other idea how I can get this fixed?

Thanks!

[SteveRiley]

I've annoted your output with line numbers:

[B](1)[/B] root@SemiosDesktop-reg:~# pwd
[B](2)[/B] /home/reg
[B](3)[/B] root@SemiosDesktop-reg:~# ll .gtk*
[B](4)[/B] -rw-r--r-- 1 reg reg 82 May  1 16:54 .gtkrc-2.0-kde4
[B](5)[/B] root@SemiosDesktop-reg:~# cd /root
[B](6)[/B] root@SemiosDesktop-reg:/root# ll .gtk*
[B](7)[/B] ls: cannot access .gtk*: No such file or directory
[B](8)[/B] root@SemiosDesktop-reg:/root#

Something doesn't look right with what you've posted. You're logged in as root (line 1) but the home directory is /home/reg (line 2)? That is unusual, and appears confirmed when you can switch to a separate directory called /root (line 5), which is actually the home directory of the root account.

I know you're aware of this, as you indicated so in the last sentence of your post. But why do you have to run in this fashion?

[reggler]

I have to run it the software under the root account because it accesses usb and rather than playing around with my user and groups, I just started the app as root

[Snowhog]

So logged in normally, open a console and type:

ls -laR | grep 'root root'

Ideally, the only thing that should be reported as being owned by root within your users home directory is ..

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 3 13:54 ..

If the result shows other than this, please copy/paste the results in your reply.

[SteveRiley]

I have to run it the software under the root account because it accesses usb and rather than playing around with my user and groups, I just started the app as root

Udev is the system that, among other duties, handles automatic permissions assignments for user accounts accessing USB devices. My suspicion is that the control device you referenced earlier doesn't match anything in *buntu's Udev database. You probably will need to write a custom Udev rule for it. Do you know how to do this?

[reggler]

So logged in normally, open a console and type:

ls -laR | grep 'root root'

Ideally, the only thing that should be reported as being owned by root within your users home directory is ..

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 3 13:54 ..

If the result shows other than this, please copy/paste the results in your reply.

Well, I get this:
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 May 15 13:49 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 915 May 10 11:30 root.dat

[reggler]

UYou probably will need to write a custom Udev rule for it. Do you know how to do this?

Nope, not yet, never done this...

[SteveRiley]

First, we need to find the device path. Plug the controller into a USB port and then check the output of dmesg or /var/log/syslog. What do you see?