.dmrc file being ignored, should be owned by user and certain permissions.. how do i?

mitchell7man · 04-14-2007, 08:41 PM

Hello, when starting ubuntu edgy eft 6.10 i get this error before gnome loads,

Quote:

"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored, preventing 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."

What exactly do i need to do? ... and how? Thanks in advance,

aysiu · 04-14-2007, 10:55 PM

Boot into recovery mode (if you don't know what that is, look at this link).

Type

Code:

chown -R mitchell:mitchell /home/mitchell
chmod 644 /home/mitchell/.dmrc
reboot

Substitute in your actual username for mitchell, of course.

mitchell7man · 04-15-2007, 02:36 PM

Hi, i followed your advice, but upon boot i still get the error?, any ideas what may have went wrong or what to do?

aysiu · 04-15-2007, 07:28 PM

Well, the original error says it has to be not only 644 permissions but also owned by the user.

Reboot into recovery mode and try:

Code:

chown -R mitchell:mitchell /home/mitchell
reboot

mitchell7man · 04-15-2007, 08:14 PM

this is wierd, i boot the recovery mode, type root password and execute the commands, to which i do not get any feedback (good or bad).....and then i boot recovery to gnome and execute the commands in terminal (sudo chown -R mitchellj:mitchellj /home/mitchellj and chmod 644 /home/mitchellj/.dmrc) both of which execute with no feedback negative or positive, just another file line or whatever its called the thing ending in $: where you type the command...... i restart and i still get the error?, am i doing it wrong or whats up?>

aysiu · 04-15-2007, 10:32 PM

If there's no feedback, negative or positive, it means the command executed successfully. I'm not sure what might be wrong.

mitchell7man · 04-16-2007, 08:55 PM

Quote:

"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored, preventing 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."

Hello, the commands you game me run fine, but i still get the error, from what i understand up to this point, i have changed the owner of home to me, and chaned the mode of .dmrc to 644, but is there something else i have to do to make .dmrc not be ignored? Thanks very much,

Michalxo · 04-25-2007, 10:30 AM

as he wrotes http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=543505
try

Code:

chmod 700 ~/

it worked for me on dapper(ubuntu)

mitchell7man · 04-25-2007, 10:31 AM

ok thanks