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

[Edwin Pujols]

Those files/directories are owned by me on my system. On Ubuntu sudo
preserves the user HOME variable by default, maybe you somehow ran *`sudo
dconf ...`* or *`sudo gsettings ...`* ?


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Oscar <oscar at tiderman.net> wrote:

>
> On 2014-04-05 10:19, Thomas Novin wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>  That seems to be the case for me too:
>
> oscar at hibbert:~$ sudo ls -la .cache/dconf/
> total 20
> drwx------  2 root  root  4096 mar 30 14:54 .
> drwx------ 26 oscar oscar 4096 apr  4 23:43 ..
> -rw-------  1 root  root     2 apr  1 06:58 user
>
> Are you sure these are not intended to be owned by root? As far as I know
> there a re no (serious) issues on my system.
>
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