Permission problem with some GUI apps

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 11 20:34:39 UTC 2012


On 11 December 2012 18:04, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/11/2012 12:59 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 11 December 2012 05:17, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Running evince, I get the following error
>>>
>>> (evince:5644): EggSMClient-WARNING **: Failed to connect to the session
>>> manager: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
>>>
>>> (evince:5644): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to read the recently used
>>> resources file at `/home/jd/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the
>>> parser
>>> failed: Failed to open file '/home/jd/.local/share/recently-used.xbel':
>>> Permission denied.
>>>
>>> (evince:5644): Gtk-WARNING **: Attempting to store changes into
>>> `/home/jd/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but failed: Failed to create
>>> file '/home/jd/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.32GDPW': Permission denied
>>
>> Did you check the permissions on that folder to make sure you have
>> create permission?
>>
>> Colin
>
> Yes! perms set to rwx for owner only.

That is only half the answer.  Who is the owner?
Are you able to manually create the files that it is having problems
creating?  I am surprised you have not tried that already.
What happens if you do
touch /home/jd/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

Colin




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