[Bug 874671] Re: Empathy doesn't remember favorites, chat logs when ~/.local is a symlink

[Jay S]

** Description changed:

  After upgrading to Oneiric, all of my Empathy favorites have been
  forgotten. Setting them again doesn't survive a logout/login cycle.
+ 
+ I now think this may be due to the fact that I keep my /home/jay/.local
+ directory as a symlink to /var/jay/.local on my SSD. This didn't used to
+ be a problem in Natty, so I don't know what changed.
+ 
+ syslog shows these messages when I try to add a favorite or when i
+ send/receive a message, respectively:
+ 
+ Oct 27 20:09:56 jay-desktop kernel: [112564.420709] type=1400
+ audit(1319760596.740:443): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=1
+ profile="/usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-*" name="/var/jay/.local/share
+ /telepathy-logger/favourite-contacts.txt" pid=8346 comm="telepathy-
+ logge" requested_mask="wc" denied_mask="wc" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
+ 
+ Oct 27 20:27:13 jay-desktop kernel: [113599.103628] type=1400
+ audit(1319761633.412:598): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" parent=1
+ profile="/usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-*"
+ name="/var/jay/.local/share/TpLogger/logs/gabble_jabber_jay_XXXXXXXXXXX_2ecom0/XXXXXXXXXXXXX at gmail.com/20111028.log"
+ pid=5324 comm="telepathy-logge" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c"
+ fsuid=1000 ouid=1000
+ 
+ I changed some permissions on the folders in /var/jay/.local (and
+ applied to sub-folders, probably an awful idea) and the problem remains.
+ 
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: empathy 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Oct 14 18:48:13 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
  ProcEnviron:
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
-  PATH=(custom, user)
-  LANG=en_US.utf8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  PATH=(custom, user)
+  LANG=en_US.utf8
  SourcePackage: empathy
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago)
  XsessionErrors:
-  (SparkleShare:3997): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_suffix: assertion `str != NULL' failed
-  (gwibber-service:3991): libindicate-WARNING **: Menu being changed when the indicator is visible.  Listeners will NOT be notified of this change.
+  (SparkleShare:3997): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_suffix: assertion `str != NULL' failed
+  (gwibber-service:3991): libindicate-WARNING **: Menu being changed when the indicator is visible.  Listeners will NOT be notified of this change.

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