GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 573485
crash in Deskbar: I have recovered my syst...
Last modified: 2009-03-03 22:56:58 UTC
What were you doing when the application crashed? I have recovered my system after a partition restore/reformat/permissions problem. Have got back into my system after /home ditectory problems and have just 'chmod -R 755 /home' to reset permissions. have more info should you need it Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) Gnome Release: 2.22.3 2008-07-09 (Ubuntu) BugBuddy Version: 2.22.0 System: Linux 2.6.24-22-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:32:42 UTC 2008 i686 X Vendor: The X.Org Foundation X Vendor Release: 10400090 Selinux: No Accessibility: Disabled GTK+ Theme: Human Icon Theme: Human Memory status: size: 0 vsize: 0 resident: 0 share: 0 rss: 0 rss_rlim: 0 CPU usage: start_time: 0 rtime: 0 utime: 0 stime: 0 cutime:0 cstime: 0 timeout: 0 it_real_value: 0 frequency: 0 ----------- .xsession-errors (8 sec old) ---------------------
+ Trace 212976
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 486549 ***
After 'chmod -R 755 /home' I got the following: drwxr-xr-x 2 777 root 4096 drwxr-xr-x 777 root 4096 Recycled, also Lost & Found drwxr-xr-x 71 walter walter 4096 walter Some programs and functions would not run so I do not have all the correct permissions in some areas yet, and got the following errors which suggests I need more write permissions. Error 'can't overwrite existing read only value /apps/deskbar/keybinding .........................................................................../apps/gnome-settings I did a search but could not find /apps, where are the files that need the write permissions? Is there a recursive way of correcting those permissions (which I have always assumed were in my home directory) Any pointers would be appreciated. The error report followed my attempt to recover my home directory as detailed in question/58814. I made little progress until I changed the /home permissions hence this error report.
The above report was https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/58814
Thanks to Linux Format magazine issue Apl 2009 p106- 'Permission Denied' Alt F1 terminal sudo chown -R username: ~username Note the ':' I think this was a critical parameter that changes the Group ownership to the users default group. Not certain if all my permissions are correct or secure but I have made some progress. So the magazine Answers by 'NB' got me my programs back :>) Nearly there!