RE: Trouble getting GNOME to work

["Matt Keyes" <matt_keyes qbsol com>]

Yes, I thought of the same thing.

I had problems with GNOME unable to create directories, so I changed these
permissions to reflect what you have below.

However, the error seems to refer to not being able to "set mode 0700", so
its not a permission problem as far as the home directory is concerned.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jens Finke [mailto:jens triq net]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 11:01 AM
To: Matt Keyes
Cc: gnome-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Trouble getting GNOME to work

On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Matt Keyes wrote:
>
> Gnome-ERROR**: Could not set mode 0700 on private per-user Gnome directory
> </home/mkeyes/.gnome_private> - aborting
> Aborting...
> Gnome-ERROR**: Could not set mode 0700 on private per-user Gnome directory
> </home/mkeyes/.gnome_private> - aborting
> Aborting...
>
> ...back to the prompt.

Just a shot in the dark: is it possible that you have no write permissions
on you own home directory or don't own the dir? An 'ls -l /home' should
give you something similar to this:

drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root         4096 May  4 11:23 .
drwxr-xr-x   21 root     root         1024 Jun 15 17:47 ..
drwxr-xr-x   29 mkeyes   users        4096 May  6 15:45 mkeyes

  Jens