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Re: Permissions error



That fixed it...thanks!



Julio Merino wrote:

> 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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> Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
>
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