*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 365823 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365823
In checking the bug that you say this bug is a dup of I find it is not a dup at all. The problem occurred after an upgrade of Ubuntu which included the Clamav update and then shutdown and booting. The root folder had no permissions or ownership changes. I received a notice with an ok button that the file .dmrc was not writable and should be owned by the user hence I couldn't boot into normal gnome desktop. I was able to boot using the failsafe gnome desktop option when I discovered that the users home directory had been taken over ownership at the owner level by clamav... group remained the username. That is the folder /home/username was taken over by clamav and thus prevented normal booting to the full gnome desktop. It prevented booting because the file .dmrc was in the users home directory and the group although it remained the username didn't have write permissions. This is not at all the same bug. -- Clamav update takes ownership of the users home directory thus preventing booting into gnome desktop. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369986 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs