on Fri, 03 Jan 2003 03:31:07PM -0500, sean finney insinuated:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 02:35:35AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> > however, it's segfaulting and refusing to do much once it gets to
> > the 'WindowMaker' line in my ~/.xsession. ~/.xsession-errors
> > tells me it's because i can't create a GNUstep directory, and
> > tells me to run wmaker.inst:
>
> why can't it create the directory is what bothers me. are the
> permissions on your home dir not allowing you to create directories?
nope:
mikan:/home> ls -l
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jan 2 16:03 lost+found/
drwx------ 2 nori nori 4096 Jan 3 15:11 nori/
it seems weird to me that i'm in the group 'nori' and not 'users', but
the permissions on my homedir are correct, and i can create
directories and files myself. they *were* weird when i copied
everything from CD (everything was 444, pretty much -- but my homedir
never was) ... but i've changed the only ones that matter, afaict.
> or, perhaps if you've restored your homedir as root it's still owned
> by root? what happens if you try and create it manually from the
> cmdline?
i can create it manually no problem. but then WindowMaker says it
can't read the file /home/nori/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker (which i
touched, but which for some reason contains
{
}
at the moment).
> normally if you don't have that directory it should create it
> automatically without complaining much.
yeah, it seems like it should ... i might try reinstalling wmaker or
something, or reconfiguring it ... woah, that did the trick ...
'apt-get install --reinstall wmaker'. um, that was weird ...
thanks!
</nori>
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