Re: Permission errors when starting GARNOME

[Patrick Morris <pmorris wilshire com>]

At the risk of giving the obvious answer: rebuild it correctly, in the
directory where you want it to live.  Make sure you go through the
README file before your second attempt to see where you tripped up.

On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 13:30, Dominic Kramer wrote:
> I recently used GARNOME 0.27.1 to install Gnome 2.4.  I was the root
> user when I was installing gnome.  Therefore, the garnome directory is
> located in /root.  I made a copy of the entire garnome directory in my
> regular home directory.  I then changed the oner of every file in
> $HOME/garnome to my regular user recursively.
> 
> However, when I try to start GARNOME (using the first startup described
> on Garnome's home page), Garnome won't start because it is looking for
> files in /root/garnome.  Note: that in the startup script
> GARNOME=$HOME/garnome (so the files in $HOME/garnome should be used not
> the ones in /root).  
> 
> But, when Garnome starts there are tons of "Permission Error" messages. 
> I can however start gnome-2.4 as root.  The only problem is starting it
> as a regular user.  What should I do?
> 
> Thanks
> Dom

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