Error msg at login [solved]

[269Shelby]

Hi,

Yesterday I was trying to make a dir in my /home dir hidden and got it a bit wrong. After some playing around I thought that I had corrected the fault. However when I booted up today, after I enter my username and password and hit enter I get the following error msg:

"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users"

I did chmod 644 .dmrc and the permissions read: -rw-r--r--. The file is owned by <me>

Not being very tech savvy I am at a loss as to how to proceed now.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.


Patrick

[penguin.ch]

Re: Error msg at login

You may launch the file manager in "super user mode" (e.g. by [Alt][F2] kdesu konqueror), point it to /home/[user] and make sure that everything "in there" is being owned by [user] (e.g. by resetting file and folder properties as appropriate, as well for the hidden files and folders residing in "user's home" ...).

[269Shelby]

Re: Error msg at login

Thanks for your reply UnicornRider.

kdesu konqueror shows everything belonging to me (user) except:

.sane is drwxrwx--- root/root
~Examples is drwxr-xr-x root/root
.automatix is drwxr-xr-x user/root

Would changing these make any difference? The .dmrc file definitely shows as -rw-r--r-- user/user

Thanks

[penguin.ch]

Re: Error msg at login

.sane is drwxrwx--- root/root
~Examples is drwxr-xr-x root/root
.automatix is drwxr-xr-x user/root

Strange but irrelevant, I'd say.

The .dmrc file definitely shows as -rw-r--r-- user/user

Interesting ... mine (by default) is set to -rw------- user/user

For that matter, you may want to compare the content of your file to what is in mine:

[Desktop]
Session=kde

[269Shelby]

Re: Error msg at login

Interesting ... mine (by default) is set to -rw------- user/user

This is also how it shows up on my Edgy system, I don't know why it's different on
Dapper.

For that matter, you may want to compare the content of your file to what is in mine:

[Desktop]
Session=kde

Mine shows exactly the same:

[Desktop]
Session=kde

Sorry, I could not get the quoting right hence the copy and paste.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Error msg at login

O.k. then, back to square one: what does ls -l /home give?

Mine looks like this:

ROOT@HAL # ls -l /home
drwxr-xr-x birdy birdy [...] attic
drwxr-xr-x birdy birdy [...] birdy

("HAL" is the machine's name, "birdy" is the default user).

[269Shelby]

Re: Error msg at login

O.k. then, back to square one: what does ls -l /home give?

Mine looks like this:

ROOT@HAL # ls -l /home
drwxr-xr-x birdy birdy [...] attic
drwxr-xr-x birdy birdy [...] birdy

("HAL" is the machine's name, "birdy" is the default user).

The permissions are slightly different to yours and I have this 'lost+found' bit.

pat@xeon:~$ ls -l /home
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2006-12-14 10:53 lost+found
drwxrwx--- 65 pat pat  4096 2007-03-18 14:42 pat

Would it break anything if I renamed the .dmrc file and then logged out and back in again?

Thanks for helping.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Error msg at login

The permissions are slightly different to yours [...]
Would it break anything if I renamed the .dmrc file [...]

I'd rather reset the "user home" permissions to default and/or restart with an "empty" session (see [Alt][F2] kcmshell kcmsmserver for details) ... but that's merely a gut feeling ...

[269Shelby]

Re: Error msg at login

I'd rather reset the "user home" permissions to default and/or restart with an "empty" session (see [Alt][F2] kcmshell kcmsmserver for details) ... but that's merely a gut feeling ...
[/quote]

I tried that and I'm still getting the error msg when I log out and back in again. I did try renaming and then re-creating the .dmrc file but that didn't help either. It's as if the system doesn't know that I have permission to access /home, which would, with my limited knowledge, seem like a corrupt file somewhere, but where..

What I don't understand is when the error msg comes up I can click on 'ok' and the system runs as it should.

I don't know if this is relevent but I found this in /var/log/user.log

[...]Failed to open saved state file: Failed: Failed to open gconfd logfile; won't be able to restore listeners after gconfd shutdown (Permission denied)
[...]GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
[...]Could not open saved state file '/home/pat/.gconfd/saved_state.tmp' for writing: Permission denied

Also I don't have a 'saved_state.tmp' file in .gconfd only a 'saved_state' file

[269Shelby]

Re: Error msg at login [solved]

This was a permissions problem. I don't know why they got changed but this is what I altered:

The .dmrc file was -rw-r--r-- which I changed it to -rw-------.

The /home dir was drwxrwx--- which I changed to drwxr--r--.

Many thanks for your help.