{SOLVED} Midnight Commander will not start as user only root

[ichase]

With the help of Josh and Fran, I have been able to get more out of my server by running gnuscreen. Currently I can toggle between shell, weechat, htop, and atop but Midnight Commander will not generate as normal user.

When at the terminal, if I attempt to run mc as a normal user I get the following error:

[ichase@homeserver ~]$ mc

(mc:15037): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
The overwriting error message was: Cannot create /home/ichase/.cache/mc directory

(mc:15037): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError or uninitialized memory.
This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before it's set.
The overwriting error message was: Cannot create /home/ichase/.local/share/mc directory
Failed to run:
Cannot create /home/ichase/.config/mc directory

This in turn does not populate a mc shell in gnusreen

If I run mc as root, it runs fine. I figured this had to be a permissions issue but can't see where the permission issue resides.

 

Thanks as always to my great educators here at BATL

[securitybreach]

Can you post the output from this?

ls -al /home/ichase/.config

 

Also, have you tried creating the mc directory:

mkdir /home/ichase/.config/mc

[ichase]

Josh, I will get you the results when I get home this evening.

But I can answer your second question. When I tried creating /home/ichase/.config/mc it told me it already existed.

[securitybreach]

Josh, I will get you the results when I get home this evening.

But I can answer your second question. When I tried creating /home/ichase/.config/mc it told me it already existed.

 

Then I would think that it has to be a permission issue.

[ichase]

Josh, definitely a permissions issue as seen below from the output you requested

[ichase@homeserver ~]$ sudo ls -al /home/ichase/.config
[sudo] password for ichase:
total 20
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Oct 12 20:33 .
drwx------ 10 ichase ichase 4096 Jan 8 06:17 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161 Oct 12 20:23 archey3.cfg
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Oct 12 20:33 htop
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 6 04:49 mc

I could not even run this command as normal user, told me permission denied?

I remember when I installed Arch and created a the user ichase, I gave it all of the same permissions I have given ichase on all my other machines? Now is there a way to "UPDATE" the user permissions for ichase or would I have to delete the user ichase and re-create it?

 

I can't even run archey3 as a normal user:

[ichase@homeserver ~]$ archey3
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/archey3", line 824, in <module>
   main()
 File "/usr/bin/archey3", line 818, in main
   config.read(options.config)
 File "/usr/bin/archey3", line 542, in read
   self.write_config(config_location)
 File "/usr/bin/archey3", line 566, in write_config
   with open(location, 'w') as configfile:
Permissionerror: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/ichase/.config/archey3.cfg'

Edited January 8, 2013 by ichase

[ichase]

Apparently the "ichase" permissions got borked up some how. So what I did was, created ichase01, gave all permissions that ichase had originally and deleted user ichase. Everything works like a champ now.

Probably not the "correct" or best way to had done this but it worked.

 

Please add {SOLVED} to thread title.

 

Thanks,

 

Ian

[securitybreach]

Sorry I was at work and could not reply at the time.

[ichase]

Sorry I was at work and could not reply at the time.

Don't appologize because you had to work or anything else that comes up. I always appreciate when you are on and give me good advice. Normally when I post an issue, I continue to try and figure it out on my own. Sometimes I am successful (like this time) and sometimes I am NOT so successful LOL

 

Thanks for the replies as always Josh, you continue to be a great educator not to mention your help over the last year and a half has brought me continous enjoyment using Arch Linux on all of my systems.

[securitybreach]

Thanks a lot Ian, it means a lot to me

 

[sunrat]

You could have tried

chown -R ichase:ichase /home/ichase

 

It would also be good to find out how they got borked in the first place.

[Guest LilBambi]

You could have tried

chown -R ichase:ichase /home/ichase

 

It would also be good to find out how they got borked in the first place.

That is what I was gonna post too! Sometimes we forget who we are when we move things into our user accounts here too and have to do that to fix the perms.