Re: [Tracker] (tracker-extract:3603): dconf-CRITICAL

[Chris <cpollock embarqmail com>]

On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 09:10 +0100, Jean-Christophe Baptiste wrote:
> Le 27/02/2017 à 23:35, Chris a écrit :
> > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 23:20 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > 2017-02-27 23:09 GMT+01:00 Chris <cpollock embarqmail com>:
> > > > On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 19:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > > > Can you check the permissions of /run/user/1000/dconf/user?
> > > > > My
> > > > > guess
> > > > > is that it is root owned because you've started an X
> > > > > application
> > > > > as
> > > > > root.
> > > >
> > > > chris@localhost:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/dconf
> > > > total 4
> > > > -rw------- 1 chris chris 2 Feb 27 16:06 user
> > >
> > > You need to check the permissions when this actually happens.
> > >
> > > As soon as you stop the root X process, the permissions are
> > > typically
> > > restored.
> > What's the best way to monitor that?
>
> Seriously, this is not a sysadmin mailing list. There are plenty of
> solutions on Google.
Sorry, I'm not a sysdamin, I'm a 68yr old home user who is trying to
get this figured out without much success. I did try Google before
asking but maybe I didn't use the correct search terms. I'll try and
think up some better ones to use. Apologies for all the noise on the
list.

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Chris
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