[Bug 369986] Re: Clamav update takes ownership of the users home directory thus preventing booting into gnome desktop.

[Tigerboy]

** Description changed:

  Would not boot into normal Gnome desktop as I would get a failure
  message instructing me to set user permissions.  Couldn't get into grub
  single mode as the system didn't start with a standard grub menu, just
  proceeds to the boot up graphic.
  
  Problem found and solution discovered: I switched to Gnome safe mode and
  finally got in.  I changed the ownership of the users home directory
  which you can do by going to "cd /home"  and ls -l to find the current
  ownership which had been taken over by clamav, apparently clamav, during
  it's last update, took possession of the users home directory (the
  directory which is in the home directory and has the same name you log
- on with) which caused the failure to boot.  Whilst in the "/home"
- directory at the command line simply type chown username:username
- username   and finally chmod 0755 username. You must be in the home
- directory this will change the owner and group to username and should
- solve the problem caused by the bad clamav installation.  Username= the
- name you use to log on Ubuntu with.
+ on with username = the name you log on with.) which caused the failure
+ to boot.  Whilst in the "/home" directory at the command line simply
+ type "chown username:username username"   and finally "chmod 0755
+ username". This will change the owner and group to "username" and should
+ solve the problem caused by the bad clamav installation.

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Clamav update takes ownership of the users home directory thus preventing booting into gnome desktop.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369986
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