Error on reboot after setting up VNC

[Wade Smart]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:14 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>  >  > On 02/27/2008 07:57 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
>  >  >  > 02272008 2151 GMT-6
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > I have just been posting about trying to use VNC on this computer and
>  >  >  > now I have a error message on my screen when I reboot:
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > "User's $HOME /.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default
>  >  >  > session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and
>  >  >  > have 644 permissions. Users $HOME directory must be owned by user and
>  >  >  > not writable by other users."
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > I get this right after I put in the password and hit enter.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > I just looked and I cant find a hidden dmrc file so I ran a search and I
>  >  >  > cant find it through a search either.
>  >  >  >
>  >  >  > Wade
>  >  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >  Ah, I remember that one. Happened to me once as well. This is what
>  >  >  finally helped me sort it out:
>  >  >
>  >  >  https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/7296
>  >  >
>  >  >  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2B.dmrc+file+is+being+ignored
>  >  >
>  >  >  BTW: I can't recall what happened or why it occured. But I did manage to
>  >  >  get it sorted out by changing the permissions *and* the chown back. What
>  >  >  do you see for:
>  >  >
>  >  >  ls -l .dmrc
>  >  >
>  >  >  On this machine I get:
>  >  >  ls -l .dmrc
>  >  >  -rw------- 1 ggx ggx 67 2008-02-27 17:06 .dmrc
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
>  >  >
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>  >  Ok. Slight problem. I ran the above ls -l .dmrc and it looked similar
>  >  to yours but we lost power.  When the pc came back up I have a new
>  >  message:
>  >
>  >  "Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged
>  >  out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem
>  >  or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the
>  >  failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem."
>  >
>  >  Well, Im not out of diskspace so it must be something else.
>  >
>  >  What the heck is failsafe?
>  >
>  >  Under the message it says View details (~/.xsessions-errorls file) and
>  >  it contains this:
>  >  /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
>  >  /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/x11r6/bin/sessreg - a -w
>  >  /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x */var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers* -h "" -l
>  >  ":0" "wadesmart"
>  >  /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup
>  >
>  >  gnome-session: 5585: libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Unable to create
>  >  ~/.gnome2 directory: PERMISSION DENIED
>  >  Could not create per-user gnome confirguation directory
>  >  '/home/wadesmart/.gnome2/': PERMISSION DENIED
>  >
>  >  What have I done?
>  >
>
>  I just figured out where the failsafe session is and when I tried to
>  log in I have the same errors as above.
>

I am logged in at the terminal now. I did
sudo chown wadesmart:wadesmart /home/wadesmart/*
and was able to cd to /home, as I could not before.

I did ls -l wadesmart and it says on every folder under that:
total 0
?---------------------------? ? ? ?   ? wadesmart/bin

Are ALL my permissions screwed?