** Description changed: After upgrading to Oneiric, all of my Empathy favorites have been forgotten. Setting them again doesn't survive a logout/login cycle. I now think this may be due to the fact that I keep my /home/jay/.local - directory as a symlink to /var/jay/.local on my SSD. This didn't used to - be a problem in Natty, so I don't know what changed. + directory as a symlink to /var/jay/.local on my SSD (and the same with + ~/.cache). This didn't used to be a problem in Natty, so I don't know + what changed. syslog shows these messages when I try to add a favorite or when i send/receive a message, respectively: Oct 27 20:09:56 jay-desktop kernel: [112564.420709] type=1400 audit(1319760596.740:443): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=1 profile="/usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-*" name="/var/jay/.local/share /telepathy-logger/favourite-contacts.txt" pid=8346 comm="telepathy- logge" requested_mask="wc" denied_mask="wc" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000 Oct 27 20:27:13 jay-desktop kernel: [113599.103628] type=1400 audit(1319761633.412:598): apparmor="DENIED" operation="mknod" parent=1 profile="/usr/lib/telepathy/telepathy-*" name="/var/jay/.local/share/TpLogger/logs/gabble_jabber_jay_XXXXXXXXXXX_2ecom0/xxxxxxxxxx...@gmail.com/20111028.log" pid=5324 comm="telepathy-logge" requested_mask="c" denied_mask="c" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000 I changed some permissions on the folders in /var/jay/.local (and - applied to sub-folders, probably an awful idea) and the problem remains. + applied to sub-folders, probably an awful idea) and the problem + remained. + + I adapted the instructions from this comment: + https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/telepathy-mission- + control-5/+bug/816554/comments/4 + + adding "owner /var/jay/.local/share/telepathy*/ rw," and the like to my + /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.telepathy file, then running: + + sudo apparmor_parser -r /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.telepathy + + Empathy is now successfully saving logs, even though + @{HOME}/.local/share/telepathy*/ is a symlink to + /var/jay/.local/share/telepathy*/ + + Is it the symlinking that is causing this problem? I assume that it is. + Why does apparmor balk at this symlink? ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: empathy 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic-pae 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 Date: Fri Oct 14 18:48:13 2011 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.utf8 SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-13 (0 days ago) XsessionErrors: (SparkleShare:3997): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_str_has_suffix: assertion `str != NULL' failed (gwibber-service:3991): libindicate-WARNING **: Menu being changed when the indicator is visible. Listeners will NOT be notified of this change.
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