[mythtv-users] Broken Home Directory / Messed up permissions

Jonathan Seawright opustormy at gmail.com
Mon Aug 4 03:34:15 UTC 2008


hmm that definately made some progress...
Now... my root drive is full... o.0

Okay, so i am back to the same window that says "the window display manager
is crashing!! trying another user"

:(
any other ideas?

On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 7:57 PM, George Mari
<george_mythusers at mari1938.org>wrote:

> Jonathan Seawright wrote:
> > Heya,
> >
> > So, I was trying to help out a friend and in my stupidity of trying to
> mount
> > a drive in my home directory and it not working, I reset the permissions
> in
> > the home directory.
> > Now, GDM crashes when I try to start up the mythbox, and I'm not sure
> where
> > to start on setting permissions back... GDM tells me that it can't write
> to
> > it's authorization file in the home directory...
> > Also, Samba is giving me huge problems when i try to access anything on
> the
> > mythtv box (music, etc)
> >
> > I read from my  google searches that files have to be 644 and folders
> have
> > to be set as 755, but I did that and it isn't working.
> > I also tried attempting to match up the permissions with the folders on
> my
> > other mythtv box... with no avail..
> >
> > Any idea where to start on that?
> >
> > I really messed it up this time!
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
>
> I need to execute chmod -R 700 on my
> /tmp/gconfd-(whateveryourusernameishere) directory whenever I have
> trouble with gdm...
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