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skinney

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From: Norway

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 37

[SOLVED]To wierd issues: chmod and file associasions

Hi,

Whenever i login to gnome i get an error message about .dmrc not being read properly due to some privelage issue. It tells me to make sure i own my home folder and set it to 644. So i use chmod to set the home folder and everything in it to 644 using this command in /home: chmod -Rv 644 username/

Then i get error messages like this:
chmod: can't access username/.thunderbird: no access
failed to change mode of username/.thunderbird to 0000 (---------)

Using nautilus i can change the privelages too, but the privelages for the owner also becomes the privelages for the group and everyone else :S So what do i do? :S

My second issues is that every file, wether it be .avi, .txt, .pdf, .mp3 or anything else, Gnome recognizes it to be textfiles all of them. So it tries to open my .avi files with gedit. If i change it to open with totem, totem will try to play my text files Might these two cases be related?

Last edited by skinney (2008-06-25 08:42:44)

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: [SOLVED]To wierd issues: chmod and file associasions

Your .dmrc has to be set to 644 and owned by you, not your whole home dir...
As the error already indicates, you removed the execute permission from all files and that makes directories un-browsable.
So, set your .dmrc to 644 and give healthy permissions to other files and dirs (most of them are 700 here).

WiLLiE

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 135

Re: [SOLVED]To wierd issues: chmod and file associasions

Hi,
My second issues is that every file, wether it be .avi, .txt, .pdf, .mp3 or anything else, Gnome recognizes it to be textfiles all of them. So it tries to open my .avi files with gedit. If i change it to open with totem, totem will try to play my text files Might these two cases be related?

I have the same problem here.
Never seen that bug before, must be something with the new gnome packages.

amokkk

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From: PL

Registered: 2008-04-18

Posts: 51

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Re: [SOLVED]To wierd issues: chmod and file associasions

Hi,
My second issues is that every file, wether it be .avi, .txt, .pdf, .mp3 or anything else, Gnome recognizes it to be textfiles all of them. So it tries to open my .avi files with gedit. If i change it to open with totem, totem will try to play my text files Might these two cases be related?

I have the same problem here.
Never seen that bug before, must be something with the new gnome packages.

u guys should have a look at this thread -> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=385084

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WiLLiE

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2005-02-27

Posts: 135

Re: [SOLVED]To wierd issues: chmod and file associasions

ooh. Thanks. (Solved by removing ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache, atleast in nautlius)
And I even get RSS-feeds of every parts of this forum, and I missed it. Doh.

skinney

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From: Norway

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED]To wierd issues: chmod and file associasions

That solved it! Thanks guys!