On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 18:56, guenther wrote: > > > > Andre - Yes, it does appear to be a permission "thing." I've got some > > > > folks trying to help me with it. I'll report back if I find a solution. > > > > Otherwise, I'm going to delete Ubuntu and re-install and start over. > > > > > > So, did adjusting the ownership (UID, GID) and maybe the file > > > permissions of ~/.evolution/mail/local/ (recursively, including all > > > files [1]) solve this? > > > > > > ...guenther > > > > > > > > > [1] and directories, which actually are files, too > > > > No. And somehow, I managed to screw-up an .xsession file in the process > > and now can no longer even login to Ubuntu! :-( So close and yet, so > > far away ... > > Quick any dirty solution: Create a new user (see 'man useradd'), copy > the .xsession file to your screwed users $HOME and adjust UID and GID to > that user. > > > > I'm ready to just delete Ubuntu and start over. However, 1) deleting > > Ubuntu won't delete grub in the MBR, so I don't know what to do unless > > the new install will overwrite the old; > > Well, any OS install which intends to be run after installation will > install (or at least ask the user to) a bootloader either in MBR or in > the current partition... ;-)
That's what I figured ... > > I don't see any issue here -- besides, I don't see how this will fix > your issue neither. > > > > and 2) I still don't know how to > > solve the original problem: owner ID on both is "kelly" but UID on SuSE > > is 500 and on Ubuntu is 1000. So, I might end up in the same place as > > before. Running chown and chmod didn't solve anything. > > OK, one of the two of us is confused now. ;) > > Those files are in your $HOME, you want to access those files -- so it > is best to own them as well. By "adjusting UID and GID" I was talking > about setting it to your current ones. I don't care about the UID you > had on the system you used before. Neither does the current system. In > fact, it doesn't even know about it... > > So to clarify: The current user should own the files. Which can be done > by 'chown' without knowing the UID, but giving the user name. > > You should own all the files (recursively) in ~/.evolution/mail/local > and have at least read and write permissions (u+rw) as well as > read/write/execute permissions (u+rwx) on the dirs. > > Do you have this? Yes, that's what I did, but it didn't change anything - I was still getting the same error message. It was subsequent to that that I did something (most of my major screw-ups come late at night when I'm tired ..) that caused me not to be able to login. I'm not sure what I did. I'm not going to re-install because I think it will solve the basic problem - I'm going to do it just so that I can get back to the point of being able to login. Kelly -- Kelly J. Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
