[Bug 1074539] [NEW] Opening Preferences shows read error for home

2012-11-02 Thread schamane
Public bug reported: When I open the preferences dialog of gnome-terminal I get a popup window (see screenshot) with the error message "Could not read the contents of home. Permission denied." If I acknowledge the error with a click on OK everything seems to work fine, nonetheless. One cause for

[Bug 1074539] Re: Opening Preferences shows read error for home

2012-11-06 Thread schamane
I'd like to add that 1) This bug can easily be reproduced by means of a standard Ubuntu Live CD. After booting the Live CD check that opening the preferences works without problems. Then enter the command(s) ls -od /home; sudo chmod 711 /home; ls -od /home which should show (apart from the dat

[Bug 1074539] Re: Opening Preferences shows read error for home

2012-11-22 Thread schamane
It's a bit weird that this hasn't drawn more attention yet. I just realized that this bug appears even in 10.04.4 with e.g. gnome-terminal 2.30. I understand that most people run their mostly personal boxes with world readable /home. But what's with server admins? -- You received this bug notific

[Bug 1074539] Re: Opening Preferences shows read error for home

2012-12-07 Thread schamane
@Pierre (p-lebedel): I don't know how things behave in case of encrypted home folders. Though, if the default permissions of /home are drwxr-x--x (0711), then the bug triggers. Changing permissions to drwxr-xr-x (0755) is perfectly fine if you can live with it. However, in some cases (shared envi

[Bug 1505769] Re: Contents of files saved to FTP are not preserved

2019-03-19 Thread schamane
Looks like a duplicate of bug #708829 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1505769 Title: Contents of files saved to FTP are not preserved To manage notifications about thi

[Bug 1074539] Re: Opening Preferences shows read error for home

2019-01-03 Thread schamane
I have tried to reproduce the bug in Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 18.04.1 and Lubuntu 18.04.1. In none of the 3 systems the bug showed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 1812247] [NEW] ssh-agent fails for ssh-add -c: agent refused operation

2019-01-17 Thread schamane
Public bug reported: Ubuntu uses ssh-agent from OpenSSH which supports adding keys by means of `ssh-add -c` indicating that keys "should be subject to confirmation before being used for authentication. In Ubuntu 18.10 this fails with the error sign_and_send_pubkey: signing failed: agent refused

[Bug 1812247] Re: ssh-agent fails for ssh-add -c: agent refused operation

2019-01-18 Thread schamane
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1789523 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1789523 @vanugt I fail to see how bug 1789523 could be a duplicate since I have shown that ssh-agent is running and working. It just fails to call ssh- askpass in some cases. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1812247] Re: ssh-agent fails for ssh-add -c: agent refused operation

2019-01-22 Thread schamane
I have now removed the "marked as a duplicate of bug 1789523". ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1789523 The ssh-agent launcher script fails to relaunch ssh-agent -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-sess