[Breezy] gdm persistant error

Ed Fletcher ed at fletcher.ca
Tue Jan 3 15:05:24 UTC 2006


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J.Markoll wrote:
> Hello,
> Since I upgraded -by the net from the last prerelease- I live with a
> permanent error at login. A message tells me 'The permissions of your
> $HOME/.dmrc are being ignored and prevent it from keeping the default
> lang and session. The file should belong to user and have 644 permissions'.


I got this message on a new install this past weekend.  I found that
file (and a bunch of others) to be owned by root.  So I did a
'sudo chown -R user:group /home/user_name'

Fixed it for me.

Ed
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we do not see the one which has opened for us.
- - Helen Keller
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