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Re: Could not set mode 0700 on private per-user gnome directory



On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 12:00:47AM +0100, Axel Minck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using woody with kernel 2.2.20 and XFree86 4.0.1
> 
> When i try to start X as user i get the following error message:
>    Could not set mode 0700 on private per-user Gnome directory
> </home/axel/.gnome_private>
> 
> As root, everything works well.
> 
> I tried to modify the permissions of directory .gnome_private, but it
> didn't change anything.
> 
> Any idea?

Who owns /home/axel/.gnome_private ?  

$ chown axel.axel /home/axel/.gnome_private

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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