Permission problem with some GUI apps

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 11 21:14:40 UTC 2012


On 11 December 2012 21:09, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/11/2012 01:34 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> Hi Colin,
> Thanx for responding, but ...
> You think I would be wasting my time and this list's
> subscribers time and post a problem about someone else's
> directory?
> Do you think that when I run evince, it tries
> to write in someone else's directory?
>
> And by the way, no user manually creates
> the directory /home/<user's name>/.local/share/ .
> It is done by the apps themselves.
> So, whatever perms are there, are set by the apps.

I will leave it for others to decide who's time you are wasting.

Colin




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