[mythtv-users] Broken Home Directory / Messed up permissions

[George Mari]

Jonathan Seawright wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> So, I was trying to help out a friend and in my stupidity of trying to mount
> a drive in my home directory and it not working, I reset the permissions in
> the home directory.
> Now, GDM crashes when I try to start up the mythbox, and I'm not sure where
> to start on setting permissions back... GDM tells me that it can't write to
> it's authorization file in the home directory...
> Also, Samba is giving me huge problems when i try to access anything on the
> mythtv box (music, etc)
> 
> I read from my  google searches that files have to be 644 and folders have
> to be set as 755, but I did that and it isn't working.
> I also tried attempting to match up the permissions with the folders on my
> other mythtv box... with no avail..
> 
> Any idea where to start on that?
> 
> I really messed it up this time!
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 

I need to execute chmod -R 700 on my 
/tmp/gconfd-(whateveryourusernameishere) directory whenever I have 
trouble with gdm...