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

[Tigerboy]

The version of clamav was the one available for update on April 29 2009.
I am not sure if that is version clamav 0.95.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 or it is
the one just before it as I ran an update following this successful fix
and wasn't certain if it had been updated. I'll be more careful next
time. Clamav became "owner" and the username retained group however it
had no write powers.

** 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  which
  caused the failure to boot ( user's home directory is the directory
  which is in the /home directory and has the same name you log on with.
  "username" = the name you log on with.).  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.
+ 
+ The version of clamav was the one available for update on April 29 2009.
+ I am not sure if that is version clamav 0.95.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 or it is
+ the one just before it as I ran an update following this successful fix
+ and wasn't certain if it had been updated.  I'll be more careful next
+ time.  Clamav became "owner" and the username retained group however it
+ had no write powers.

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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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