[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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