<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">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 ...` ?</div> </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Oscar <<a href="mailto:oscar@tiderman.net" target="_blank">oscar@tiderman.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> On 2014-04-05 10:19, Thomas Novin wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Martin Pitt <<a href="mailto:martin.pitt@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">martin.pitt@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Thomas Novin [2014-04-04 23:20 +0200]: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> $ 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 </blockquote> 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. </blockquote> 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. <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/350633/what-is-dconf-and-gvfs-folders" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/350633/what-is-dconf-and-gvfs-folders</a> <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/346392/why-can-deja-dup-not-complete-the-backup-of-cache-dconf-and-gvfs" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/346392/why-can-deja-dup-not-complete-the-backup-of-cache-dconf-and-gvfs</a> <a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/346392/why-can-deja-dup-not-complete-the-backup-of-cache-dconf-and-gvfs" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/questions/346392/why-can-deja-dup-not-complete-the-backup-of-cache-dconf-and-gvfs</a> Rgds//Thomas </blockquote></div></div> That seems to be the case for me too: oscar@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.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>