[wellylug] ubuntu access problem

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Thu Feb 21 22:49:14 NZDT 2008


Rob Collins wrote:
> Cliff Pratt wrote:
>> Rob Collins wrote:
>>   
>>> Donovan Jones wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com 
>>>> <mailto:enkidu at cliffp.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     Rob Collins wrote:
>>>>     > After converting my kubuntu 7.10 install to ubuntu gnome via apt-get
>>>>     > install ubuntu-desktop I am now thinking gnome has many more
>>>>     merits than
>>>>     > I used to think and am considering switching for good.
>>>>     >
>>>>     > One problem though, for some mysterious reason, read access to root
>>>>     > folders is now disabled for all users unless i use sudo.  ie, I cant
>>>>     > navigate to / without an error popping up saying something like
>>>>     "access
>>>>     > denied, you do not have rights to access /."  This is a real
>>>>     p.i.t.a. as
>>>>     > amarok, my favourite music player (light years ahead of
>>>>     > i-restricted-tunes) relies on being able to read root in order
>>>>     catalogue
>>>>     > my music collection so now it too comes up with an error saying "no
>>>>     > access to /".
>>>>     >
>>>>     If amarok really needs read access to the root of the filesystem,
>>>>     it is
>>>>     seriously broken, IMO.
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>> do you really keep any music outside of /home ?
>>>>
>>>> either way just go into amarok > settings > configure amarok > collection
>>>> choose some more specific paths where your music is located. No need 
>>>> to have amarok scanning your entire file system
>>>>  
>>>> Don
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> No, ofcouse not Don, the music is in /Home/Rob/Music/.  The problem is 
>>> that the collection builder starts in / and as it cannot READ / it just 
>>> comes up with an error without proceeding further.  There's no 
>>> opportunity to choose the music folder.
>>>

What do you by "(it) starts in /"? I wonder if it is trying to traverse 
the directory tree and can't. But if the permissions in the / are wrong 
almost everything would break.

>>>
>> What are the permissions in /? As in 'ls -l /'.
>>   
> Thanks for the interest in helping Cliff and yes I do need to to this 
> simple check and will report back when i've done this but the pc in 
> question isn't in the same house that i'm is right now, will have a more 
> concise diagnostic for you later in the week.
> 
For reference an editted list of mine is as follows:

cliffp at bumblebee:~$ ls -l /
total 164
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     4096 2007-12-02 10:59 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root   root     4096 2008-02-14 22:03 boot
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       11 2006-07-31 06:47 cdrom -> media/cdrom
drwxr-xr-x  14 root   root    14000 2008-02-21 12:51 dev
drwxr-xr-x 157 root   root     8192 2008-02-21 22:12 etc
drwxr-xr-x   5 root   root     4096 2007-04-16 18:32 home
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     4096 2006-05-31 12:49 initrd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       29 2007-12-13 21:14 initrd.img -> 
boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-xen
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       33 2007-12-02 11:35 initrd.img.old -> 
boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
drwxr-xr-x  17 root   root     8192 2007-12-10 08:46 lib
drwxr-xr-x   4 root   root     4096 2007-12-02 10:55 lib32
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root        3 2006-07-31 06:47 lib64 -> lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root    49152 2006-07-31 06:46 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   5 root   root     4096 2008-02-21 12:50 media
drwxr-xr-x   6 root   root     4096 2007-12-22 15:08 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     4096 2006-05-31 12:49 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 163 root   root        0 2008-02-22 01:50 proc
drwxr-xr-x  24 root   root     4096 2008-02-21 09:33 root
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     8192 2007-12-13 21:29 sbin
drwxrwx---  22 root   plugdev  4096 1970-01-01 12:00 share
drwxr-xr-x   2 root   root     4096 2006-05-31 12:49 srv
drwxr-xr-x  13 root   root        0 2008-02-22 01:50 sys
drwxrwxrwt  17 root   root     8192 2008-02-21 22:23 tmp
drwxr-xr-x  12 root   root     4096 2007-04-25 22:00 usr
drwxr-xr-x  18 root   root     4096 2007-12-02 11:04 var
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       26 2007-12-13 21:14 vmlinuz -> 
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-xen
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root   root       30 2007-12-02 11:35 vmlinuz.old -> 
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic

Cheers,

Cliff




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