On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Kaj <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > > > Den 2016-11-21 15:53, skrev Kent West: > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:41 AM, <70147pers...@telia.com > > <70147pers...@telia.com> <mailto:70147pers...@telia.com> > <70147pers...@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
