Dale writes:
> OK. New theory here. This came about in another thread about the
> shiney new kernel, that isn't new by the way. Anyway, look at this crap:
>
> root@fireball / # ls -al /home/dale/
> total 640
> drwxr-xr-x 61 dale users 2672 Jul 23 10:14 .
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 208 Jun 17 03:01 ..
> drwx------ 3 dale dale2 80 Sep 3 2010 .adobe
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dale users 24 Apr 10 16:40 .aspell.en.prepl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dale users 29 Apr 10 16:40 .aspell.en.pws
> drwxr-xr-x 3 dale users 96 Feb 25 2010 .avidemux
[...]
> By comparison, check this out for my test user:
>
> root@fireball / # ls -al /home/dale2/
> total 73
> drwx------ 13 dale2 users 544 Jul 11 01:59 .
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 208 Jun 17 03:01 ..
> -rw------- 1 dale2 500 5 Jul 11 01:59 .bash_history
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dale2 users 127 Apr 18 14:04 .bash_logout
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dale2 users 193 Apr 18 14:04 .bash_profile
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dale2 users 551 Apr 18 14:04 .bashrc
> drwxr-xr-x 4 dale2 users 128 Jul 5 12:28 .config
> drwx------ 3 dale2 users 80 May 8 11:55 .dbus
> drwx------ 2 dale2 users 144 May 8 11:55 Desktop
> -rw------- 1 dale2 users 24 Jul 6 22:18 .dmrc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dale2 500 112 Jul 5 15:59 .fontconfig
> drwxr-xr-x 2 dale2 500 88 Jul 11 01:51 .gstreamer-0.10
> drwxr----- 2 dale2 users 112 Jul 5 15:59 .hplip
> drwxr-xr-x 4 dale2 users 200 Jul 5 12:16 .kde4
> drwxr-xr-x 3 dale2 users 72 May 8 11:55 .local
> drwx------ 5 dale2 500 136 Jul 11 01:56 .mozilla
> drwx------ 2 dale2 users 48 Apr 18 14:04 .ssh
> drwx------ 3 dale2 500 72 Jul 5 12:21 .thumbnails
> -rw------- 1 dale2 500 0 Jul 11 01:59 .Xauthority
> -rw------- 1 dale2 500 50596 Jul 11 01:59 .xsession-errors
> root@fireball / #
>
>
> Why are some using the group users and others using my test user dale2?
And what is group 500? Did you use your $HOME directory from another OS maybe?
> I don't think I have a group dale2. Could this be the cause?
You have the group, or else it would not be shown by ls. But you once group,
which is only known by its GID 500 now.
You can check your IDs with the 'id <user>' command.
> What
> exactly tells Linux to give those permissions? I looked around in /etc
> for some file that would set this but I can't find anything.
Normally, files are created with your primary group. The one that is in the
fourth column of your user in /etc/passwd, you set it with usermod -g.
> Even if this isn't the cause, how do I go about fixing this?
If you never intended to use different groups at all, chgrp -R users $HOME
should do the trick. But I doubt it has anything to do with your kernel
panics.
Wonko
