[sylpheed:33369] Re: Desperate - Moving to new distro

[heymanj at acm.org]

On 28 November 2009 at 14:21, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:56:47 +0200
> Einar Lielmanis <einars at gmail.com> dijo:
> 
> > Try running sylpheed from the terminal and looking if there is any
> > relevant output -- maybe you've got problems with permissions under
> > ~/.sylpheed (or maybe it's searching for the configuration under
> > ~/.sylpheed-2.0 instead of .sylpheed).
> 
> Thanks for the replies.
> 
> I must apologize - I said the folder from my old disk was .sylpheed,
> but it is .sylpheed-2.0. I was having a blond moment.
> 
> When I run it from the command line I get only one error message:
> 
> (sylpheed 6839): Gtk warning**: GtkSpinButton: Setting an adjustment
> with non-zero page size is deprecated
> 
> I doubt that has anything to do with the problem.

No, unfortunately it does not.  Only a warning :-(

> Since I first posted about the problem I have discovered a problem with
> Firefox. As with Sylpheed, I copied my ~/.mozilla folder from the old
> hard disk. Now I get an error message that Firefox is already running.
> Google tells me that this is cause by not being able to find its
> ~/.mozilla folder. Google further suggests that it is a
> permissions/ownership issue.

May also be caused by the existence of a lock file.  When Mozilla is
running, it create a file named 'lock' in

/home/userid/.mozilla/firefox/random.string/lock

If Firefox was running when you copied stuff over to the new disk, then
you got the 'lock' file too.  This is how Firefox 'knows' another instance
is running.

> On my old computer I was jjj of the group jjj. OpenSuse set me up as
> jjj of the group users. So I did "chown -R
> jjj:users /home/jjj/.sylpheed-2.0." Unfortunately, it did not resolve
> the problem. I know little about how permissions and ownerships work. 

short explanation.  every file/directory has permissions.  the permissions
are grouped into three, three bit sets.  first set is owner, second set is
group, third set is world (or everyone).

-rwx------ gives owner read/write/execute permission on the file
-rw-rw-r-- gives owner read/write, group read/write, world read permissions
drwxr-xr-x is a directory, readable/writeable by the owner, but readable only
           for group and world

You should probably run the 'chown -R jjj:users /home/jjj' - but it's a 
command that only root can run.  This makes sure that every file in the
directory (and subdirectories) now have the correct permissions.

> There is one other issue. On my old disk the ~/.sylpheed-2.0 folder had
> a big padlock on it when viewed in Nautilus and I could not copy it to
> the new hard disk. From the command line I did chmod 777 on the folder
> and then I was able to copy it to the new hard drive.

Padlock meant owned by someone else - and you were locked out.  chmod 777
sets all the permission bits on 

-rwxrwxrwx allowing owner, group, and world the ability to modify

> I need to figure nout nhow to get sylpheed to see it.
> Pardon the typing. I hate the keyboard on this computer.

No problem.  more details you can give us, the better chance we have of
helping.

jerry
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