Re: Permissions error
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 11:34:42AM -0500, Wayne Sitton wrote:
> I have messed up something in my home directory. When I'm in Gnome,
> none of my native
> Gnome programs will run, I click on, for example, GTCD (Gnome CD
> Player) it doesn't run.
> so I opened an xterm and tried to run it from the shell and I got this
> error
>
> Gnome-ERROR **: Could not set mode 0700 on private per-user Gnome
> Directory </home/wayne/.gnome_private> - aborting
Try this:
chown wayne.wayne /home/wayne/.gnome_private
chmod 700 /home/wayne/.gnome_private
(supposing that wayne is your user and it's group). If the system
doesn't let you to do it, become root and try another time.
I think that should be enough.
Hope this helps.
>
> What do I do to fix this?
>
> Wayne
>
>
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