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Hi guys,
I'm really not sure what my problem is, so I'll give you all the symptoms.
First, when I boot up and type startx, I get this error: xauth: time out in locking authority file /home/doron/.Xauthority. This happens four times, then I get the nvidia logo, then it's back to the command line with the same error again.
When I first installed gentoo, I could only run gui's as root (fluxbox), so I figured I'd copy all of the hidden folders from /root to /home, and I could then run fluxbox. Now that I downloaded gnome, nothing works.
I logged into fluxbox again, and when I tried to start firefox I got this error:
(Gecko:18171): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create ~/.gnome directory: Permission denied
Could not create per-user gnome configuration directory `/home/doron/.gnome2/': Permission denied
I get permission errors all the time, which is why I downloaded gnome cause I figured I'm not smart enough to run fluxbox yet, but it seems I messed something up during the install process.
So basically, I think as a user, I don't have enough priveliges to create folders and such, so how do I give myself the necessary priveliges (too lazy to go through a thesaurus)
yeah ..permissions.
first add yourself to group video, audio, maybe lp (printer)...if you aren't already..
"adduser [yourloginname] [groupname]"
"cat /etc/group" to see groups on your system.
if you do a "ls -la" in your homedirectory you'll see how is allowed to read, write, execute,...
read the "chmod"-manpage if you need to edit these settings. be sure your homedirectory itself is at least "drwxr_x___".
ex. "chmod ug+rwx .gnome2" will make the gnome2-directory read,write & "execute"-able for you and users in your group.
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