Kino problem

Doug Pollard dougpol1 at verizon.net
Thu Aug 7 17:49:10 UTC 2008


Mumia W. wrote:
> On 08/07/2008 08:45 AM, Doug Pollard wrote:
>   
>> Well now, I think may have screwed up!  In a rush to get my video on 
>> ubuntu from my camcorder . I used   GKsudo Kino  in order to get Kino  
>> to capture. That put the file in a Root folder ( guess because of using 
>> sudo ) and it seemed the thing to do was to pick up the files and drop 
>> them in my user home folder.
>> I guess this was a mistake.  Of course I would like to just erase the 
>> files as a solution from user folder but have no idea that would solve 
>> the problem.
>>     Ubuntu now complains on start up:  Users$home/ dinrc file is being 
>> ignored.  This prevents the default session and language from being 
>> saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permisiones.  
>> User$home:directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users.
>>     There is another thing that may or may not be related I am now also 
>> getting on start up a bug report: Deskbar application crash collected.  
>> I have sent it in a couple of times but get the same message on start 
>> up.  Are theses seperate problems??
>>                                                                       
>> Thanks Doug
>>      
>>
>>     
>
> I don't have a "dinrc" on my system. Use "chown <user> <filename>" to 
> change the ownership of a file. Read "man chown"
>
> Use this command to get a list of files in your home directory that are 
> not owned by you:
>
> find ~ \! -uid `id -u`
>
> Incorrectly-owned files may affect almost any application--including the 
> deskbar.
>
>
>
>   
All right this is the message I get when is put in. 
                                               doug at doug-desktop:~$ find 
~ \! -uid 'id -u'
find: invalid argument `id -u' to `-uid'
doug at dougdesktop:~$
Doug is not my user id
                                                                Doug





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