Finston Pickle
Mon Feb 20, 2017 1:52:53 pm
I recently learnt a lesson when my Zorin 9, Toshiba laptop could not find my operating system. Fortunately, I had made a backup, which I restored. I now back up regularly on both my Zorin 9, Toshiba laptop and my new Zorin 12, Kratos laptop.
I used backups on both yesterday. Unlike my previous backups, which have worked faultlessly on both machines, I encountered a problem on my Zorin 9, Toshiba laptop. It said it could not back up /home/ubuntu (my computer and Group name)/.cache/dconf or /home/ubuntu/.gvfs and that I should ensure that permissions were changed so they could be accessed.
This gets me into previously uncharted territory!
I used nautilus to look at the two files and saw that the icons had two red crosses at the top and bottom of the icon.
Looking at permissions, I found:
1. For /home/ubuntu/.cache/dconf
Owner: Me
Access: create and delete files
Group: root
Access: none
Others
Access: none
2. For /home/ubuntu/.gvfs
Owner: Me
Access: create and delete files
Group: root
Access: none
Others
Access: none
Easy, I thought - I will look up the permissions of the same files on my Zorin 12, Kratos laptop and copy them on my Zorin 9, Toshiba laptop.
Looking on Zorin 12, Kratos laptop, there was no dconf in /home/ubuntu/.cache/ and no .gvfs in /home/ubuntu/ Also there was nothing showing when I searched /home/ for .gvfs
I did find dconf on my Zorin 12 machine at /home/ubuntu/.config/dconf with permissions of:
Owner: Ubuntu
Access: create and delete files
Group: Ubuntu
Access: create and delete files
Others
Access: access files
The question is what permissions should I set for /home/ubuntu/.cache/dconf and /home/ubuntu/.gvfs on my Zorin 9, Toshiba laptop.
OR should they even be there? What are dconf and .gvfs and what do they do - were they something to do with the restore and are no longer needed to be backed up? Who/what made them inaccessible?
If someone can advise me of the revised permissions I should use, or actions that I should take, I would normally use gksudo nautilus and work in that root? version of nautilus. Is this OK, or is there a superior method that I should use?
I am sorry that this is a rather long posting, F.P.
I used backups on both yesterday. Unlike my previous backups, which have worked faultlessly on both machines, I encountered a problem on my Zorin 9, Toshiba laptop. It said it could not back up /home/ubuntu (my computer and Group name)/.cache/dconf or /home/ubuntu/.gvfs and that I should ensure that permissions were changed so they could be accessed.
This gets me into previously uncharted territory!
I used nautilus to look at the two files and saw that the icons had two red crosses at the top and bottom of the icon.
Looking at permissions, I found:
1. For /home/ubuntu/.cache/dconf
Owner: Me
Access: create and delete files
Group: root
Access: none
Others
Access: none
2. For /home/ubuntu/.gvfs
Owner: Me
Access: create and delete files
Group: root
Access: none
Others
Access: none
Easy, I thought - I will look up the permissions of the same files on my Zorin 12, Kratos laptop and copy them on my Zorin 9, Toshiba laptop.
Looking on Zorin 12, Kratos laptop, there was no dconf in /home/ubuntu/.cache/ and no .gvfs in /home/ubuntu/ Also there was nothing showing when I searched /home/ for .gvfs
I did find dconf on my Zorin 12 machine at /home/ubuntu/.config/dconf with permissions of:
Owner: Ubuntu
Access: create and delete files
Group: Ubuntu
Access: create and delete files
Others
Access: access files
The question is what permissions should I set for /home/ubuntu/.cache/dconf and /home/ubuntu/.gvfs on my Zorin 9, Toshiba laptop.
OR should they even be there? What are dconf and .gvfs and what do they do - were they something to do with the restore and are no longer needed to be backed up? Who/what made them inaccessible?
If someone can advise me of the revised permissions I should use, or actions that I should take, I would normally use gksudo nautilus and work in that root? version of nautilus. Is this OK, or is there a superior method that I should use?
I am sorry that this is a rather long posting, F.P.
