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d3viant
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unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permissio

#1 Post by d3viant »

Stretch install, a few hours old:

(I am running Gnome)

# cd /run/user/1000
# ls-l
...you'll see something like this:
d????????? ? ?      ?        ?            ? gvfs

Based on Piviul's suggestion from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=769889 , I ran
# chmod u+rx /run/user/1000/gvfs
also tried:
# chown myself:myself gvfs

I end up with:
chmod: cannot access '/run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied

Is there any way to fix this?

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Re: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permi

#2 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

Don't be root.
AdrianTM wrote:There's no hacker in my grandma...

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Re: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permi

#3 Post by d3viant »

dilberts_left_nut wrote:Don't be root.
Oh wow.. that easy?

Thank you, that appears to have done the trick!! :D

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Re: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permi

#4 Post by d3viant »

Noticed this pop up again:
May 20 02:37:51 debian tracker-extract[1001]: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly.
(A root session was active, as I had installed Clemetine and hadn't closed off the terminal)

When I exit the admin session and change to that directory, the permissions & ownership aren't ?? ? as they are when I checked in my already open root session.

Does this conflict occur simply on the existence of a root session?

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Re: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permi

#5 Post by debiman »

maybe you have to undo what you did in there previously.
all in all, i'm pretty sure everything under /run isn' supposed to be edited by hand.

so the question is why are you trying to do this?
http://xyproblem.info/

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Re: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permi

#6 Post by d3viant »

As mentioned in my original post, this is a fresh install; I'm monitoring the logs to find anything broken in attempt to fix so I can have as stable as possible environment.

The permissions error initially existed without my intervention. All I did was install Gnome.

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Re: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permi

#7 Post by debiman »

d3viant wrote:I'm monitoring the logs to find anything broken in attempt to fix so I can have as stable as possible environment.
umm.
i see.

some errors are surely important and require investigation.
others are meaningless, harmless, can be ignored...
warnings are not errors but also sometimes important enough, but often not.
and n attempt to 'fix' an error can break things even further.

it's a tricky thing - i'd say unless something really doesn't work, don't attempt to fix it.

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Re: unable to create file '/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permi

#8 Post by d3viant »

True, good call on that :)

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