[Discuss] Linux Mint Cinnamon Home Permissions

[Will Rico]

Jerry, that's a good suggestion (to try this as "root").  I think 
however, I'm going to wait until the weekend and try this with a fresh 
install on a separate partition.  I'm a little gun shy about reverting 
settings for a third time.

Thanks for the good tips!
Will

On 12/12/2012 07:37 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Most of these settings are stored in "hidden"  files in your home
> directory.
> An 'ls -al' will show you all your files, hidden or otherwise as well as
> the permissions.
> Once you determine that these files may have incorrect ownership, then:
> 'sudo chown -R <you>:<your group> .'
> Should set everything back to the correct ownership.
>
> -- Another test may be safer
> 1., become root using sudo ' sudo -s -H'
> 2. cd /tmp.
> 3. Check permissions and ownership of files in /tmp
> 4. reinstall the nvidia driver. Something like 'apt-get install
> --reinstall nvidia'
> After reinstalling, check the permissions and ownership in the /tmp
> directory.
> 5. Restart X by logging out, and logging back in. Your home directory
> should be untouched, and it any file permission has changed in /tmp,
> then the nvidia package is suspect.
>
>
>
> On 12/11/2012 11:01 PM, Will Rico wrote:
>> Thanks for the tips guys!  I tried to recreate the problem and ran
>> into a couple of new ones, lol...
>>
>> (1)  I couldn't figure out how to switch to the Gallium driver. After
>> searching online to no avail, I tried switching the "Driver" line in
>> xorg.conf to "gallium."  That didn't seem to work.  When I logged back
>> in, the display was super low resolution and listed the driver as i915.
>>
>> (2)  I figured that removing the package for the nvidia driver would
>> switch me back to Gallium.  It didn't.
>>
>> (3)  I reinstalled the nvidia driver.  Nowhere along the way did it
>> change the permissions on my home directory.  However...
>>
>> (4)  When I got back into Cinnamon, I lost settings that you wouldn't
>> expect I would have lost.  For example:
>> a-  My language setting was lost
>> b-  My panel settings were back to the default
>> c-  My window settings (e.g. where the maximize/minimize/close buttons
>> appear) were back to the default
>> d-  I had my GMail account configured in Pidgin for GTalk and the
>> account was gone.
>> e-  Also, in Pidgin, I had disabled the lib-notify plug-in.  It was
>> re-enabled.
>> f-  When I started Firefox, it checked for plug-in compatability,
>> which it only does the first time you run it after installing a new
>> version, so it seems to have forgotten it had already done this
>> g-  In Terminal, I had changed the colors.  These went back to the
>> defaults.
>> h-  When I look at my bash history, I don't see any of the apt-get
>> commands I used for this experiment or the editing of the xorg.conf
>> file, which leads me to believe I may be going crazy.
>>
>> I'm guessing some or all of the above settings were all stored in my
>> home directory.  So like I said, I couldn't recreate the original
>> problem, but I managed to create some new ones.
>>
>> Will
>>
>> On 12/11/2012 04:24 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 03:39:15PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>>> On 12/11/2012 01:53 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
>>>>> You could follow Bill's suggestion and pull apart the package and see
>>>>> what it does.  Or you could just test it...  Being very careful not to
>>>>> run anything else, log in to your system, change the driver back to
>>>>> gallium.  Log out, and check your ownership and permissions.  Then log
>>>>> in again, update it to nvidia again, and do your check again.
>>>>>
>>>> Possibly an easier way is to make sure everything is Kosher including
>>>> your home directory permissions and ownership, then after you have
>>>> verified, reinstall the package that you think caused the problems,
>>>> then
>>>> double check the ownership et. al. Then you can terminate your X
>>>> session
>>>> by logging out. You should be able to log in once again. Or if the
>>>> problem is the same as before, then you can assume that the package you
>>>> installed is the culprit.
>>> Possibly easier, or possibly harder.  It's almost exactly what I
>>> suggested, except it leaves out the step of returning the machine to
>>> the state it was in prior to upgrading the driver.  If the problem is
>>> caused by an interaction between those two, skipping that step will
>>> obviously not trigger it...
>>>
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