15 Oct
2016
15 Oct
'16
4:21 p.m.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2016, Felix Miata wrote:
I followed Dr. Klepp's advice before reading your post; below you
recommend pretty much the same remedy as an option.
I think I'll restore the original .trinity and have a look. I did
ls -Rahl /home/davisf
but it doesn't recurse very far. I'll try mc.
thank you for further tips.
f.
Felmon Davis composed on 2016-10-15 03:28 (UTC-0400):
using debian (exegnu version).
Installed trinity r14.0.3 via exegnu on a Lenovo
Thinkpad t450s
which had Windows 7
(self-installed) before installing exegnu.
each time I boot linux via grub2 I get the
'personalizer' and have to
re-do my desktop settings.
Which Linux distro? Such trouble can result from misusing su (or sudo?).
sudo is not set up. I've not had time for much customizing, was just
trying to make the desktop 'standard' (for my taste).
I assume a permissions problem somewhere. I
don't know. where should I
look?
Look throughout your homedir. Open any file manager that displays ownership
of listed objects (e.g. mc in long listing mode, which is what I would be
using), and it should quickly become apparent if any are owned by some other
user or by root. If none are misowned in your home's root, then
start with
~/.trinity, ~/.local and ~/.config in your search traversing the depths of
your home. If it's a new installation, it could be easier to login as root
and delete the entire content of your homedir, then copy the content of
/etc/skel/ to your homedir and change owner/group appropriately by root to
your username/groupname: 'chown -R username.groupname /home/username/'. Or
you could start with the recursive chown if you don't care where the problem
actually lies but only want it fixed.
--
Felmon Davis
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
-- Miguel de Cervantes