Configuration file "/home/steven/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc" not writable.

[Shabakthanai]

While trying to consolidate and remove duplicate files, I screwed up. I don't know what has caused this problem. It did not show up until long after I made the unnoticed error. The above error comes on the screen when I open Dolphin. I have to click OK to get dolphin to open. How do I repair the damage I caused? Thanks.

[vinnywright]

show the output of

ls -la ~/.kde/share/config

VINNY

[james147]

or more specifically:

ls -l ~/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc

[vinnywright]

or more specifically:

ls -l ~/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc

yes to be specific ,,,,,,,,I was just looking to see if their was any other damage like undo permissions or missing in ~/.kde/share/config

VINNY

[Snowhog]

"Configuration file "/home/steven/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc" not writable"

You must have launched dolphin using sudo earlier and actually wrote or modified/saved files. This will result in such behavior, as the dolphinrc file is likely now owned by root.

Open a console (F2 and type konsole and press enter). Type:

sudo chown -R steven:steven /home/steven

Press enter. This will change the ownership of all files and directories within your home directory (/home/steven) to you, which they should be.

[Shabakthanai]

steven@Yeshuah:~$ ls -la ~/.kde/share/config
total 540
drwxr-xr-t 5 steven steven 4096 Jan 13 02:03 .
drwxr-xr-t 6 steven steven 4096 Jan 12 12:14 ..
-rw------- 1 steven steven 177 Jan 12 12:02 activitymanagerrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 91 Jan 12 12:39 akonadi_akonotes_resource_0rc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 28 Jan 12 12:39 akonadi_contacts_resource_0rc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 151 Jan 12 12:39 akonadi-firstrunrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 60 Jan 12 12:39 akonadi_ical_resource_0rc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 90 Jan 12 12:39 akonadi_maildir_resource_0rc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 77 Jan 12 12:02 akonadi_mailfilter_agentrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 66 Jan 12 17:45 akonadi_nepomuk_feederrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 63 Jan 12 14:29 akonadi_pop3_resource_0rc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 158 Jan 12 14:34 akonadi_pop3_resource_1rc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 36 Jan 12 12:02 amarokrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 60 Jan 12 12:02 bomberrc
drwxr-xr-t 2 steven steven 4096 Jan 12 14:44 colors
-rw------- 1 steven steven 16438 Jan 12 13:17 digikamrc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 736 Jan 12 10:17 dolphinrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 41 Jan 12 14:36 drkonqirc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 164 Jan 12 14:38 emaildefaults
-rw------- 1 steven steven 568 Jan 12 14:38 emailidentities
-rw------- 1 steven steven 44 Jan 12 17:46 filetypesrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 63 Jan 12 12:02 granatierrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 32 Jan 12 12:02 kaddressbookmigratorrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 184 Jan 13 00:40 katepartpluginsrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 2106 Jan 13 00:39 katepartscriptrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 5020 Jan 13 00:56 katerc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 53141 Jan 13 00:39 katesyntaxhighlightingrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 61 Jan 12 12:02 kbouncerc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 63 Jan 12 12:02 kbreakoutrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 67 Jan 12 12:02 kcalcrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 37 Jan 12 12:02 kcmaudiocdrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 227 Jan 12 18:38 kcmcssrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 73 Jan 12 12:34 kcmdisplayrc
-rw-r--r-T 1 steven steven 51 Jan 12 10:11 kcmfonts
-rw------- 1 steven steven 56 Jan 12 12:02 kcminputrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 464 Jan 12 12:14 kcmnspluginrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 3505 Jan 12 12:02 kconf_updaterc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 76 Jan 12 12:02 kcookiejarrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 steven steven 505 Jan 13 00:39 kdebugrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 697 Jan 13 01:56 kded_device_automounterrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 39 Jan 12 12:02 kdedrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 steven steven 2740 Jan 12 12:34 kdeglobals
-rw------- 1 steven steven 62 Jan 12 12:02 kdiamondrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 55 Jan 12 12:02 kfmclientrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 12659 Jan 13 02:01 kglobalshortcutsrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 30666 Jan 13 02:01 khotkeysrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 690 Jan 13 02:01 kickoffrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 62 Jan 12 12:02 killbotsrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 24 Jan 12 12:02 kio_desktoprc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 69 Jan 12 12:02 kio_httprc
-rw-r--r-T 1 root root 36 Jan 12 10:06 kiorc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 92 Jan 12 12:02 kioslaverc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 62 Jan 12 12:02 klickety
-rw------- 1 steven steven 60 Jan 12 12:02 klines
-rw------- 1 steven steven 116 Jan 12 12:17 klipperrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 22309 Jan 12 14:52 kmail2rc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 59 Jan 12 12:02 kmail.eventsrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 26 Jan 12 14:09 kmail-migratorrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 66 Jan 12 12:02 kmailrc
-rw-r--r-T 1 steven steven 2163 Jan 12 10:08 kmetainformationrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 60 Jan 12 12:02 kmines
-rw------- 1 steven steven 177 Jan 12 11:57 kmixctrlrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 1260 Jan 12 17:45 kmixrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 62 Jan 12 12:02 knetwalk
-rw------- 1 steven steven 66 Jan 12 12:02 knoderc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 366 Jan 12 18:33 konq_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 steven steven 775 Jan 13 01:08 konquerorrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 282 Jan 12 14:42 konsolerc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 280 Jan 12 12:02 korganizerrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 58 Jan 12 12:02 kpat
-rw------- 1 steven steven 260 Jan 12 17:50 kpatrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 186 Jan 12 14:41 kpgprc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 49 Jan 12 12:39 kres-migratorrc
drwxr-xr-t 4 steven steven 4096 Dec 29 04:24 kresources
-rw------- 1 steven steven 1276 Jan 13 01:43 krunnerrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 4873 Jan 13 01:57 ksmserverrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 122 Jan 12 12:02 ktimezonedrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 88 Jan 12 12:02 kuriikwsfilterrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 135 Jan 12 14:39 kwalletrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 2100 Jan 13 02:01 kwinrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 18 Jan 13 01:57 kwinrulesrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 63 Jan 12 12:02 libkcal_htmlexportrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 71 Jan 12 12:02 libkleopatrarc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 437 Jan 12 14:40 mailtransports
-rw------- 1 steven steven 202 Jan 12 18:31 muonrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 116 Jan 12 12:02 nepomukserverrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 500 Jan 12 12:17 nepomukstrigirc
-rw------- 1 root root 619 Jan 12 10:22 phonondevicesrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 5044 Jan 13 02:02 plasma-desktop-appletsrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 786 Jan 13 02:01 plasma-desktoprc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 20 Jan 12 12:51 plasmarc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 697 Jan 12 12:02 powermanagementprofilesrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 594 Jan 12 13:57 rekonqrc
drwxr-xr-t 2 steven steven 4096 Jan 13 01:57 session
-rw------- 1 steven steven 66 Jan 12 12:39 specialmailcollectionsrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 steven steven 788 Jan 12 17:45 startupconfig
-rw-rw-r-- 1 steven steven 2410 Jan 12 17:45 startupconfigfiles
-rw-rw-r-- 1 steven steven 426 Jan 13 02:01 startupconfigkeys
-rw-r--r-- 1 steven steven 1853 Jan 12 14:52 systemsettingsrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 555 Jan 12 14:32 templatesconfigurationrc
-rw------- 1 steven steven 21 Jan 12 12:07 trashrc
steven@Yeshuah:~$

show the output of

ls -la ~/.kde/share/config

VINNY

[Shabakthanai]

steven@Yeshuah:~$ ls -l ~/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 736 Jan 12 10:17 /home/steven/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc
steven@Yeshuah:~$

or more specifically:

ls -l ~/.kde/share/config/dolphinrc

[Snowhog]

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 736 Jan 12 10:17 dolphinrc
-rw------- 1 root root 619 Jan 12 10:22 phonondevicesrc
steven@Yeshuah:~$

As I said would be the case, you have configuration files in your home directory that are owned by root, not by you. Note that dolphinrc is one, and is why you are getting the error.

Follow my instructions in my previous post and you'll be fine.

[Shabakthanai]

Phenomenal and thanks. You guys are so great!!!

[Snowhog]

Happy to be of help.

[james147]

And remember, this is why you should not run GUI application with sudo... If you must run them as root use kdesudo instead.

[Shabakthanai]

I don't make that mistake too often anymore. Thanks for the reminder,friend.

And remember, this is why you should not run GUI application with sudo... If you must run them as root use kdesudo instead.