On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 01:23:34PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 17 October 2021 12:35:01 deloptes wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > 1. Before the latest failure I could do all this as me because the > > > mount point for the card is in my home directory, I own it all. And > > > didn't have to be root to do any of it. This was not fixed by a 2nd > > > reboot. > > > > I guess this problem is not related to the .profile issue you are > > having below. > > Agreed. > > > Check the permissions on the mount point > > done, I still own it. > > > and the fstab > > its not in fstab, never was. I touched a file in > home/gene/Downloads/3dp.stf named sdb1 to create a mount I didn't have > to search thru /media to access. >
What on EARTH? This is a very trange way to do this, I think. Either put it in fstab at which point it will alwsays be found or learn where it's mounted under /media - which will be consistent, maybe? Interestingly,mounting an SD card that fits an SD card slot gave me one path, a micro-SDin a holder gave me another but they were always consistent. lsblk is your friend here, I think, as is the mount command. > Up until this 5 second power failure, I could, as me, mount that SD card > there, and use mc, as me, to overwrite a file on that card, then sync; > eject sdb1. Led on card adapter goes out, pull the card, take it back to > the printer and select and print the updated file. Now I have to be > root to do any of it except the printer. The card is vfat, which has no > concept of file ownership. > > > and also your > > group membership. > > gene@dddprint:~/AppImages$ cat /etc/group|grep gene > dialout:x:20:gene > cdrom:x:24:gene > sudo:x:27:gene > audio:x:29:pulse,gene > video:x:44:gene > gene:x:1000: > > Nothing changed there in months. > > > The SD card might also need a fsck. > > by whose fsck? > Make sure it's not mounted, then fsck the device. Probably dosfstools is needed. > > > 2. and another pesky thing is starting a konsole to do work, needs a > > > $PATH modification that we used to put in ~.profile. But opening a > > > terminal hasn't called a ". .profile" since about jessie. So thats > > > another PITA. > > > > > > So, what has replaced .profile as the function for such as that in > > > recent releases? > > > > AFAIK bash is not reading profile when you login, but not sure - it > > could be also that it is not a login shell. > > XFCe login, I think. I only see it once on that machine. logging in > remotely with "ssh -Y machine-name" or 'user1000'@machine-name is how I > generally run things from a comfy chair. > > > AFAIK you should open the terminal with "bash --login" to read the > > profile. So try in the terminal "bash --login" > > Done, but no change in the $PATH. But it did take two ctl-d's to exit it. > > > I have put in my .profile > > > > alias bash='bash --login' > > > > long time ago > > Thank you deloptes. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > Take care, with all good wishes as always, Andy Cater
