Re: [Evolution] Evo 1.4.6 to Evo 2.2, SuSE to Ubuntu

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > Andre - Yes, it does appear to be a permission "thing." I've got some
> > > folks trying to help me with it. I'll report back if I find a solution.
> > > Otherwise, I'm going to delete Ubuntu and re-install and start over.  
> >
> > So, did adjusting the ownership (UID, GID) and maybe the file
> > permissions of ~/.evolution/mail/local/ (recursively, including all
> > files [1]) solve this?
> >
> > ...guenther
> >
> >
> > [1] and directories, which actually are files, too
>
> No. And somehow, I managed to screw-up an .xsession file in the process
> and now can no longer even login to Ubuntu!  :-( So close and yet, so
> far away ...

Quick any dirty solution: Create a new user (see 'man useradd'), copy
the .xsession file to your screwed users $HOME and adjust UID and GID to
that user.


> I'm ready to just delete Ubuntu and start over. However, 1) deleting
> Ubuntu won't delete grub in the MBR, so I don't know what to do unless
> the new install will overwrite the old;

Well, any OS install which intends to be run after installation will
install (or at least ask the user to) a bootloader either in MBR or in
the current partition... ;-)

I don't see any issue here -- besides, I don't see how this will fix
your issue neither.


> and 2) I still don't know how to
> solve the original problem: owner ID on both is "kelly" but UID on SuSE
> is 500 and on Ubuntu is 1000. So, I might end up in the same place as
> before. Running chown and chmod didn't solve anything.

OK, one of the two of us is confused now. ;)

Those files are in your $HOME, you want to access those files -- so it
is best to own them as well. By "adjusting UID and GID" I was talking
about setting it to your current ones. I don't care about the UID you
had on the system you used before. Neither does the current system. In
fact, it doesn't even know about it...

So to clarify: The current user should own the files. Which can be done
by 'chown' without knowing the UID, but giving the user name.

You should own all the files (recursively) in ~/.evolution/mail/local
and have at least read and write permissions (u+rw) as well as
read/write/execute permissions (u+rwx) on the dirs.

Do you have this?

...guenther


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