~/.gconf problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 July 2014 04:43:29 Colin Law did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 23 July 2014 09:29, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server
> 
> Google revealed this which contains a solution that might help
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/367169
> 
> Colin

Fixed it right up, two files there were owned my me and 2 were owned by 
root.

However, my question echo's most of the rest of the posters to that "bug".

Howinhell did root get to own files that we should have owned?

I suppose its possible I even did it, but if thats the case, I did it 
AFTER the failure to run as me, with a sudo.  It didn't run that way 
either IIRC.

Thank you Colin, that is much appreciated.  I'll hand you a cold suds if 
you ever show up at my front door. :)

Next question, attempting to survey my domain of /home/gene for some more 
of those:
gene at lathe:~$ ls -laR .|grep root
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2014-07-16 16:52 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  152 2014-07-17 10:56 host
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 2014-07-17 13:11 linuxcnc
ls: cannot access ./.gconf/desktop: Permission denied
ls: cannot access ./.gconf/apps: Permission denied
ls: cannot access ./.gconf/..: Permission denied
ls: cannot access ./.gconf/.: Permission denied
ls: cannot open directory ./.gconf/apps: Permission denied
ls: cannot open directory ./.gconf/desktop: Permission denied

~/.gconf seems to have all sorts of pitbulls guarding it, and the linuxcnc 
dir was created by root with amrecover, semi-expected but I'll fix it 
anyway.  Is ~/.gconf supposed to have all those hungry dogs posted around 
it?

The /home/gene/host file looks as if its a scratchpad for amrecover & 
could probably be evicted. NBD.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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