Quoting Charles Blair (c-bl...@illinois.edu): > > Personally, I would chown -R user.user the files and directory > > tree-tops I was going to move. That sorts out the permissions > > change. Then I would mv -i ... /home/user (the -i is habit, like > > with rm -i). Because of the directory recursion, it might take a > > while, so mv -iv will give a screaming list of files moved. > > I used chown -R user:user . at the top of /root/.cache, > /root/.mozilla, and /root/.claws-mail. When I typed > mv -iv ./.cache /home/<username>, it refused to do anything > because there was already a .cache there.
Well, the idea outlined above depended on adding a new user to take over the role of running things that shouldn't be run as root. Sorry if I didn't make that clear enough in the previous post to that quoted, not knowing that you were going to attempt to merge things with a preexisting user. > In a reckless mood, > I used rm -R and rmdir to get rid of /home/<user>/.cache, > and then used mv -iv to move .cache from /root. I did the > same with .claws-mail and .mozilla. I can't understand why you rm things. Why not mv them? Then you can restore all or parts of them, or just pick over them later. Ironically, I mentioned that the "-i" in mv -i was redundant because I thought you were moving files into the newly created and virtually empty directory. Unfortunately I don't know what's gone missing from your user's mail and browser. It should be just configuration stuff which can be re-set up. .cache shouldn't matter at all as applications should just recreate it as and when required. > Some du and df output > after these operations is shown below. / certainly looks healthier. > When I typed apt-get update, it seemed to begin as > desired, but quickly stopped with the message > > > Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn. > > PermissionsInvalid: The permission of the setuid helper is not correct Take a look at ls -l /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/ The permissions should be -rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebus [...] dbus-daemon-launch-helper Have they changed, and to what? Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150215173321.ga12...@alum.home
