Re: All settings are lost at logout
On Monday 21 November 2016 23:34:06 Kaj wrote:
> Den 2016-11-21 17:18, skrev Kent West:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Kaj <70147persson@telia.com
> > <mailto:70147persson@telia.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Den 2016-11-21 15:53, skrev Kent West:
> > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:41 AM, <70147persson@telia.com >
> > > <mailto:70147persson@telia.com>
> >
> > <mailto:70147persson@telia.com> <mailto:70147persson@telia.com>>
> > wrote: > > > A[fter a reinstall of Debian] all looked very fine, and
> > I decided to > restart the computer. The first observation was that
> > suddenly all the > devices defined and mounted in /etc/fstab
> > appeared as icons on the > desktop, and I could not remove them.
> > Next was that all of my > settings of Caja file manager were gone. I
> > use to make some personal > adaptation: first I prefer one mouse
> > click to open a file from the > icon, the list view instead of icon
> > view and a few other options like > these. Until now all of these
> > settings has been saved and restored at > every login, but now they
> > are lost and has to be redone every time. > The same deals with the
> > wi-fi password, I have to write it in at > every login. > > Next
> > observation is that I can add no program starters to the panel. >
> > Well, yes, I can add one starter, but no more, they do not appear >
> > there. I can remove the first icon, and add another one, but still >
> > just one. Creating them, even more than one, on the desktop causes
> > no > problem. If all these effects come from the same source I do
> > not > know, but I suspect they do. Some package might have
> > unintentionally > been removed, but if so I have not been able to
> > find out which one. I > have made reinstalls of al lot of them, e.g.
> > mate-panel, but without > any result. Could anyone find the common
> > factor, I would appreciate > it. If nothing else I will of course
> > make a new reinstall, but it > takes a good deal of time, and I feel
> > it ought to be unnecessary. > > Regards Kaj > > > My first guess is
> > that when you didn't wipe your /home partition, you > preserved your
> > old home directory, and then logged in after the > reinstall with
> > the same name but different user ID, which means not > all of that
> > directory belongs to you. > > I'd log out, switch to a VT
> > (Ctrl-Alt-F2), log in as root, rename > your user directory (mv
> > /home/kaj /home/kaj.bak), delete your current > user (deluser kaj),
> > and then recreate your user (adduser kaj), so > that you have a
> > fresh user directory. > > This is only one of two or three ideas
> > that come immediately to mind > as a way to deal with / test my
> > theory that your user directory > doesn't have the correct perms,
> > but they all boil down to suspecting > your user directory perms,
> > and fixing them. > > I doubt very seriously that a reinstall is
> > needed. > > -- Kent > > > > > -- Kent West
> > <")))>< Westing Peacefully - > http://kentwest.blogspot.com
> >
> > Hi Kent. Thank you for your answer.
> >
> > A wee of your thoughts I have had myself. Among others I have
> > earlier noticed that all these hidden config files residing in the
> > home directory can give very confusing results when you install a
> > previously used program in a new environment. So I tested to move
> > all these hidden directories, all starting with a dot, into a
> > specially created directory, in order to being able to put personal
> > settings back when the problem is solved. When running the
> > different programs, you can see how they create new hidden
> > directories to put their config files in.
> >
> > So this I have tested without success. Next I have created a new
> > user (test) with an own, new home directory. No success on that
> > neither.
> >
> > So I think that I have tested the essential parts in your
> > suggestion, even if I have not been that drastic to clean my home
> > directory completely.
> >
> > One reason for my suspicion of a mistakenly removed program is that
> > the removal of PulseAudio also took away of a lot of other programs,
> > e.g. Gimp. Those I have had to lay back manually afterwards. Despite
> > a lot of searching however, I have not found which program or
> > service is lacking.
> >
> > /Kaj
> >
> >
> > I'd next try a different desktop environment ("sudo tasksel" might do
> > the job easily). If that works, you'll have a good indication that it
> > has something to do with MATE/Marco/Caja.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kent West <")))><
> > Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
>
> Thank you Kent for the hints on how to solve my problem. Well now I have
> stepped out on unknown ground. I had never had any reason to use this
> program tasksel, and hence knew nothing about it. But well, after
> reading the man page, I gave it a try, and installed the LXDE
> environment. After reboot I found that most of, maybe every, program I
> had installed in Mate is here too. Maybe not so strange, but a welcome
> observation. So far I have not tested all these, so I do not know if
> they also behave the same as in the old environment, but I assume they
> will. At least Thunderbird is the same, as far as I can see now.
>
> Another observation is that all the icons of devices mounted via
> /etc/fstab is not on this desktop, so that is an advancement.
>
> However, the settings in Caja did not survive the logout and reboot.
> They have to be defined once again.
But did they survive after you re-entered them in LXDE and rebooted?
Lisi
>
> So half a step forward, but we are not at the goal yet.
>
> But thank you so far,
>
> Kaj
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