~/.gconf problem

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 23 July 2014 10:26:16 Colin Law did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On 23 July 2014 14:59, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > 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 think that in earlier versions of Ubuntu .dbus may have been owned
> by root but this changed at some point.  Is your system one that was
> updated from an earlier version?

No, had e2fsck induced drive failure, reinstalled new straight from a 
10.04.4 cd you can get from  linuxcnc.org, which has a special, and 
"pinned" version of the rtai patched realtime kernel.  Linuxcnc dies a 
horrible death if you change kernels because it needs hard, realtime 
interrupt capabilities 10 to 1000x better than a stock kernel can supply.

> Alternatively I know that if graphics apps are run using sudo instead
> of gksudo that some files can end up getting owned by root, but I
> don't know whether that can apply to .dbus.

Neither do I Colin.  Thanks again. 

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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