Bug in some way but where? Where to file a bug?

Thomas Novin thomas at xyz.pp.se
Sat Apr 5 08:19:04 UTC 2014


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Thomas Novin [2014-04-04 23:20 +0200]:
>> $ sudo ls -la .cache/dconf
>> total 12
>> drwx------  2 root  root  4096 mar 28 18:06 .
>> drwx------ 24 thnov thnov 4096 apr  4 22:45 ..
>> -rw-------  1 root  root     2 mar 28 18:06 user
>>
>> $ sudo ls -la .dbus
>> total 12
>> drwx------  3 root  root  4096 mar 28 18:06 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 35 thnov thnov 4096 apr  4 22:47 ..
>> drwx------  2 root  root  4096 mar 28 18:06 session-bus
>
> You somehow managed to get root-owned files into your home directory.
> In particular, the .cache/dconf/user file is rather worrying. If you
> fix that with
>
>   sudo chown -R thnov:thnov ~
>
> it should be all fine again, and probably also fix a couple of other
> misbehaviours.
>

Strange, I have not done anything manually to get these permissions,
AFAIK. The system is installed ~ 10 days ago and it is pretty vanilla.
If you do some Googling, there are lots of others with the same
problem.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/350633/what-is-dconf-and-gvfs-folders
http://askubuntu.com/questions/346392/why-can-deja-dup-not-complete-the-backup-of-cache-dconf-and-gvfs
http://askubuntu.com/questions/346392/why-can-deja-dup-not-complete-the-backup-of-cache-dconf-and-gvfs

Rgds//Thomas




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