Alexander, Great, this helped, but still not able to activate metacity, and Gnome will only start if I use the sudo command before gnome-session & in xterm. . Should I just do this same chown command for my whole /sw folder? Eg
sudo chown franx.staff /sw sudo -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Hansen Sent: Fri 6/27/2003 7:33 AM To: Francis Maier Cc: fink beginners Subject: RE: [Fink-beginners] More Gnome/XDarwin problems The permissions are right, but not the ownership: it shows up as owned by root rather than by franx, which is why you can't access it. You can fix this with sudo chown franx.staff .gconf On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 09:31, Francis Maier wrote: > Alexander, > > Here's what I get on that commmand; it appears right to me. Am I > missing something? > > Last login: Fri Jun 27 07:19:25 on ttyp1 > Welcome to Darwin! > [Francis-X-Maiers-Computer:~] franx% ls -la ~ > total 144 > drwxr-xr-x 51 franx staff 1734 Jun 27 07:24 . > drwxrwxr-t 5 root wheel 170 May 28 20:16 .. > drwx------ 3 franx staff 102 Jun 26 20:15 .AbiSuite > drwx------ 4 root staff 136 Jun 13 19:31 .BitchX > -rw-r--r-- 1 franx staff 3 May 28 20:16 .CFUserTextEncoding > -rwxr-xr-x 1 franx staff 6148 Jun 26 21:55 .DS_Store > -rw------- 1 root staff 4242 Jun 26 20:05 .ICEauthority > -rw-r--r-- 1 franx staff 0 May 28 22:32 .MCXLC > drwx------ 2 franx staff 68 Jun 27 06:32 .Trash > -rw-r--r-- 1 franx staff 1114 Jun 27 07:20 .blackboxrc > drwxr-xr-x 12 franx staff 408 Jun 24 06:24 .bluefish > -rw-r--r-- 1 franx staff 24 Jun 25 20:46 .cshrc > -rw------- 1 franx staff 16 Jun 14 12:36 .esd_auth > drwx------ 5 franx staff 170 Jun 24 21:28 .gaim > -rw------- 1 franx staff 1293 Jun 24 21:28 .gaimrc > drwx------ 2 root staff 68 Jun 23 05:45 .gconf > drwx------ 3 root staff 102 Jun 23 05:45 .gconfd > drwxrwxrwx 27 franx staff 918 Jun 26 22:11 .gimp-1.2 > drwxr-xr-x 7 franx staff 238 Jun 22 11:12 .gkrellm > drwx------ 35 franx staff 1190 Jun 24 21:44 .gnome > drwxr-xr-x 7 root staff 238 Jun 19 05:20 .gnome-desktop > drwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 136 Jun 21 07:07 .gnome-help-browser > drwx------ 3 franx staff 102 Jun 27 06:04 .gnome2 > drwx------ 3 franx staff 102 Jun 14 17:32 .gnome_private > drwxr-xr-x 15 franx staff 510 Jun 14 15:52 .gtk-gnutella > -rw------- 1 root staff 152 Jun 22 21:33 .gtkrc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1119 Jun 19 06:12 .gtkrc-kde > drwx------ 5 franx staff 170 Jun 13 20:12 .kde > -rw------- 1 root wheel 154 Jun 13 20:15 .kderc > drwxr-xr-x 5 root staff 170 Jun 24 21:44 .mc > drwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 136 Jun 15 15:26 .mcop > -rw------- 1 root wheel 31 Jun 19 06:12 .mcoprc > drwxr-xr-x 6 franx staff 204 Jun 14 17:36 .mozilla > drwxr-xr-x 6 root staff 204 Jun 15 15:26 .qt > drwxr-xr-x 4 root staff 136 Jun 16 05:04 .sawfish > drwx------ 3 franx staff 102 Jun 25 19:18 .ssh > drwx------ 4 root staff 136 Jun 16 05:52 .thumbnails > -rw-r--r-- 1 franx staff 5861 Jun 27 06:02 .xftcache > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 14 Jun 27 06:17 .xinitrc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 1 Jun 25 05:02 .xinitrc.save > -rw-r--r-- 1 franx staff 14 Jun 26 20:11 .xinitrcy > drwxr-xr-x 6 franx staff 204 Jun 22 14:38 .xmms > drwx------ 6 franx staff 204 Jun 27 06:32 Desktop > drwx------ 7 franx staff 238 Jun 27 06:07 Documents > drwx------ 27 franx staff 918 Jun 27 06:32 Library > drwx------ 2 franx staff 68 Jun 14 15:46 Mail > drwx------ 3 franx staff 102 May 28 20:16 Movies > drwx------ 5 franx staff 170 Jun 22 17:31 Music > drwx------ 6 franx staff 204 Jun 19 19:12 Pictures > drwxr-xr-x 4 franx staff 136 May 28 20:16 Public > drwxr-xr-x 6 franx staff 204 Jun 27 06:36 Sites > [Francis-X-Maiers-Computer:~] franx% -----Original Message----- > > > > try running "ls -la ~" and verify: (1) that the .gconf directory > exists, and (2) that it is owned by you and its permissions are > drwx------ > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU > > Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting > Partner. > > Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly > Commission! > > INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php > > _______________________________________________ > > Fink-beginners mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University, visiting MIT PSFC Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
