[sylpheed:33370] Re: Desperate - Moving to new distro

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:21:56 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 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.
> 
> I need to figure nout nhow to get sylpheed to see it.

OK, I solved the Firefox problem as root with

chown -R jjj:users /home/.mozilla/

But teh same command on the .sylpheed-2.0 folder does not solve the
problem for Sylpheed.