Re: [Discuss] Linux Mint Cinnamon Home Permissions

2012-12-19 Thread Brendan Kidwell
Also, when doing a lot of things at once, for example backup/reinstall/restore... (Or even scarier, upgrade a VPS's OS in place, remove several user accounts, replace one web app with another, and upgrade WordPress -- you get the idea.) I've found it's a good idea to take things slowly and reboot

Re: [Discuss] Linux Mint Cinnamon Home Permissions

2012-12-13 Thread Will Rico
Well, I tracked down the culprit in this mystery and the trail pointed to dumb user, not bad video driver. Prior to installing Linux Mint, I had used Clonezilla to save an image of the home partition. To be on the safe side, I immediately restored the image to a spare partition to see if a

[Discuss] Linux Mint Cinnamon Home Permissions

2012-12-11 Thread Will Rico
I installed Linux Mint Cinnamon 14 on Sunday. Everything looked good except for an odd display problem. As I typed in LibreWriter or gmail (via a Web browser) it would sometimes whiteout the sentence ahead of where I was typing. The text was still there, but just not shown. I realized I

Re: [Discuss] Linux Mint Cinnamon Home Permissions

2012-12-11 Thread Bill Bogstad
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Will Rico willr...@gmail.com wrote: So my question is...How can updating a graphics driver change someone's home directory permissions? The .deb file format allows for both pre post install scripts (programs) to be run. For what is probably some truly

Re: [Discuss] Linux Mint Cinnamon Home Permissions

2012-12-11 Thread Will Rico
Thanks for the tips guys! I tried to recreate the problem and ran into a couple of new ones, lol... (1) I couldn't figure out how to switch to the Gallium driver. After searching online to no avail, I tried switching the Driver line in xorg.conf to gallium. That didn't seem to work. When