Help can't login!

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2013-09-16 00:51, Pete Smout wrote:
>
> pete at petes-lappy:~$ sudo chown -R pete:pete
>  [sudo] password for pete:
>  chown: missing operand after ‘pete:pete’
>  Try 'chown --help' for more information.
>  pete at petes-lappy:~$
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>

You didn't tell it what to chown.
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME

 From Googling it may be a config file permissions problem, so the chown 
should fix it.
(The permission problem is said to arise due to starting graphics apps 
with sudo instead of gksudo, though I fail to see why this would be the 
case?).
For reference: 
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+question/197479


Best regards,
Patrick