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#1 2009-01-31 20:43:38

Raccoon1400
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: 2008-04-14
Posts: 853

.dmrc permissions error[SOLVED]

This started happening after resizing my partition with gparted CD. It may also have been caused by recent updates.
The error box pops up against a black background while gnome is loading.
The error and the steps I took to try to fix it are here.
however, it still persists.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/dmrcErrors

.dmrc

duncan@duncan-arch ~]$cat ./.dmrc


[Desktop]
Session=gnome
duncan@duncan-arch ~]$

Here's the updates that I did.

[2009-01-31 13:03] synchronizing package lists
[2009-01-31 13:04] starting full system upgrade
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded libsamplerate (0.1.4-1 -> 0.1.6-1)
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded audacity (1.3.6-2 -> 1.3.7-1)
[2009-01-31 13:26] Generating locales...
[2009-01-31 13:26]   en_US.UTF-8... done
[2009-01-31 13:26] Generation complete.
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded glibc (2.9-2 -> 2.9-4)
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded readline (5.2.013-1 -> 5.2.013-2)
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded bash (3.2.048-2 -> 3.2.048-3)
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded mysql (5.0.75-3 -> 5.0.75-4)
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded opal (3.4.4-2 -> 3.4.4-2.1)
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded pidgin (2.5.3-1 -> 2.5.4-1)
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded system-config-printer (1.1.1-2 -> 1.1.2-1)
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded texinfo (4.13a-1 -> 4.13a-3)
[2009-01-31 13:26] upgraded unrar (3.8.5-1 -> 3.8.5-2)

Last edited by Raccoon1400 (2009-02-01 02:25:32)


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#2 2009-02-01 00:14:52

Mektub
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From: Lisbon /Portugal
Registered: 2008-01-02
Posts: 647

Re: .dmrc permissions error[SOLVED]

Raccoon1400,

all there is about it is that the file $HOME/.dmrc needs to be  owned by user and have 644 permissions.

Supposing the owner is duncan, just do in a terminal:

chown duncan $HOME/.dmrc
chmod 644 $HOME/.dmrc

use 'sudo' if needed.

This is because of security reasons, so as that nobody can fiddle with yhis file.

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#3 2009-02-01 02:25:17

Raccoon1400
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: 2008-04-14
Posts: 853

Re: .dmrc permissions error[SOLVED]

Mektub, I did all that already with no luck.

I finally solved it. I deleted the file and it's backup and they were regenerated. I had deleted the file before, but this time I deleted the backup too.


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#4 2009-03-03 23:51:25

leftyteck
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Registered: 2008-11-22
Posts: 6

Re: .dmrc permissions error[SOLVED]

Raccoon,

Where is the "backup" stored? I am having the same problem.


Thanks

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#5 2009-03-04 01:05:38

Raccoon1400
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: 2008-04-14
Posts: 853

Re: .dmrc permissions error[SOLVED]

leftyteck wrote:

Raccoon,

Where is the "backup" stored? I am having the same problem.


Thanks

the backup is in the same place, with ~ before or after the filename, I forget which.


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