[Bug 369986] Re: Clamav update takes ownership of the users home directory thus preventing booting into gnome desktop.

[Tigerboy]

** Description changed:

  Would not boot into normal Gnome desktop as I would get a failure
  message instructing me to set user permissions.  Couldn't get into grub
  single mode as the system didn't start with a standard grub menu, just
  proceeds to the boot up graphic.
  
  Problem found and solution discovered: I switched to Gnome safe mode and
  finally got in.  I changed the ownership of the users home directory
  which you can do by going to "cd /home"  and ls -l to find the current
  ownership which had been taken over by clamav, apparently clamav, during
- it's last update, took possession of the users home directory (the
- directory which is in the home directory and has the same name you log
- on with username = the name you log on with.) which caused the failure
- to boot.  Whilst in the "/home" directory at the command line simply
- type "chown username:username username"   and finally "chmod 0755
- username". This will change the owner and group to "username" and should
- solve the problem caused by the bad clamav installation.
+ it's last update, took possession of the users home directory  which
+ caused the failure to boot ( user's home directory is the directory
+ which is in the /home directory and has the same name you log on with.
+ "username" = the name you log on with.).  Whilst in the "/home"
+ directory at the command line simply type "chown username:username
+ username"   and finally "chmod 0755 username". This will change the
+ owner and group to "username" and should solve the problem caused by the
+ bad clamav installation.

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Clamav update takes ownership of the users home directory thus preventing booting into gnome desktop.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369986
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