well, there you have it. your user does not have access to read the directories and files. how do you expect a process that is run with your privileges to get around that?
this a user error and thus invalid. You can fix the problem one by one with "sudo chown -R user $problemdirectory" (look at the output of the find command) ** Changed in: baobab (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to baobab in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1093268 Title: baobab has wrong permission settings Status in “baobab” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Calling baobab as normal user and analysing the home folder(/home/user) makes baobab informing the user that /home/user or included subfolders could not be read. See attached screenshot(german language). Steps to reproduce: 1.Call baobab 2.Analyse the home folder of the default user 3.See the error message in baobab descibed above. Additional: There are some files in /home/user created by sudo, but no folders itself. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: baobab 3.6.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0 Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Dec 23 14:24:31 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/baobab InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-22 (153 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120722) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no username) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: baobab UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-11-15 (37 days ago) XsessionErrors: (gnome-settings-daemon:2405): libappindicator-CRITICAL **: app_indicator_set_label: assertion `IS_APP_INDICATOR (self)' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:2405): libappindicator-CRITICAL **: app_indicator_set_label: assertion `IS_APP_INDICATOR (self)' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:2405): libappindicator-CRITICAL **: app_indicator_set_label: assertion `IS_APP_INDICATOR (self)' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:2405): libappindicator-CRITICAL **: app_indicator_set_label: assertion `IS_APP_INDICATOR (self)' failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/baobab/+bug/1093268/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp