| R13ose | I get this error 'Configuration file "/home/test/.config/kreadconfig5rc" not writable. Please contact your system administrator." and unsure why. Any ideas? | 01:17 |
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| valorie | hmmm, sounds like you have permissions problem | 01:34 |
| valorie | !permissions | 01:34 |
| ubottu | An explanation of what file permissions are and how they can be manipulated can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions | 01:34 |
| R13ose | Yes but why? I had this last time before I reformatted the computer | 01:34 |
| valorie | it's possible that some application or file was invoked with sudo that shouldn't have been | 01:35 |
| malaverdiere | Hi everybody. Things have been slower since I upgraded Kubuntu to 18.04. Even putting the proprietary NVdia plugins doesn't resolve the lag that kicks in from time to time | 01:35 |
| valorie | which made that file owned by root instead of by you the user | 01:35 |
| R13ose | valorie: How do I fix this? | 01:35 |
| valorie | r1 | 01:35 |
| valorie | that link should explain | 01:35 |
| R13ose | Change ownership that is all? | 01:36 |
| valorie | right, chmod your #HOME is what you basically do | 01:36 |
| valorie | if it's just a file or two it will be super-quick | 01:36 |
| R13ose | valorie: when I try to open dolphin, I get this "Configuration file "/home/test/.config/dolphinrc" not writable. Please contact your system administrator." but after I click okay it opens and another error comes up. | 01:37 |
| valorie | ugh, is your home on another drive? | 01:37 |
| R13ose | Nope | 01:38 |
| valorie | because perhaps it's not cleanly mounted | 01:38 |
| valorie | ok | 01:38 |
| valorie | imo you should chmod home just to be safe | 01:38 |
| valorie | Warning with Recursive chmod | 01:39 |
| valorie | WARNING: Although it's been said, it's worth mentioning in context of a gotcha typo. Please note, Recursively deleting or chown-ing files are extremely dangerous. You will not be the first, nor the last, person to add one too many spaces into the command. This example will hose your system: | 01:39 |
| valorie | user@host:/home/user$ sudo chmod -R / home/john/Desktop/tempfiles | 01:39 |
| valorie | Note the space between the first / and home. | 01:40 |
| valorie | You have been warned. | 01:40 |
| valorie | from that link ubottu gave above | 01:40 |
| R13ose | I am confused | 01:40 |
| valorie | mmm, maybe I meant chown | 01:45 |
| valorie | !chown | 01:45 |
| ubottu | An explanation of what file permissions are and how they can be manipulated can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions | 01:45 |
| valorie | ok, same link | 01:45 |
| R13ose | valorie: what should my command be? | 01:46 |
| valorie | hmmm | 01:46 |
| valorie | chown -R youruser /home/youruser | 01:50 |
| valorie | if your user in this system is test, then `chown -R test /home/test` | 01:53 |
| R13ose | still coming up after using that | 01:56 |
| R13ose | valorie: ^ | 01:58 |
| valorie | did chown give you any output? | 01:59 |
| R13ose | said a lot of these "chown: changing ownership of '/home/test/.face': Read-only file system" | 02:00 |
| valorie | do the files still show as read-only? | 02:00 |
| valorie | in dolphin or the cli | 02:01 |
| R13ose | -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 14965 May 22 10:06 .face | 02:01 |
| R13ose | this is in cli | 02:01 |
| valorie | I'm afraid I'm beyond my knowledge | 02:02 |
| valorie | when I've chowned home that always fixed issues | 02:02 |
| R13ose | Thanks for trying | 02:02 |
| valorie | you might try in #ubuntu | 02:02 |
| R13ose | I will try that | 02:02 |
| valorie | best of luck! | 02:02 |
| R13ose | :) | 02:05 |
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| qwebirc9273 | hey I'm trying to install Kubuntu but the install keeps hanging when going from the "Software" section to the "Disk Setup" section ... has anyone seen this? What do I do? | 02:58 |
| valorie | qwebirc9273: are you doing a whole-disk install, or what? | 03:05 |
| valorie | what version? | 03:05 |
| qwebirc9273 | 18.04 | 03:06 |
| qwebirc9273 | I got an ssd for it last night so I'm fine with whole disk | 03:06 |
| qwebirc9273 | I would like to setup a duel boot, its been a while since I've done it but I remember it being pretty automated | 03:07 |
| valorie | 18.04.1? | 03:07 |
| valorie | or just 18.04 | 03:07 |
| qwebirc9273 | hmm I'm running Kubuntu from the thumb drive is there a version I can check in Konsole? | 03:08 |
| valorie | well, from where did you download the ISO? | 03:08 |
| qwebirc9273 | the ubuntu page | 03:08 |
| valorie | if you did it from our website, it's the correct version | 03:08 |
| valorie | like the ubuntu flavors page? | 03:08 |
| qwebirc9273 | I found a bug about this earlier I think my issue is similar | 03:09 |
| qwebirc9273 | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1766978 | 03:09 |
| ubottu | Launchpad bug 1766978 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "The installer stop at the Update and Other software screen when Windows is installed" [Undecided,Confirmed] | 03:09 |
| qwebirc9273 | I went here https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/ | 03:09 |
| valorie | right, that's our website | 03:10 |
| valorie | interesting, I've not seen this bug report before, and it seems it is for all the flavors | 03:10 |
| valorie | and odd that it has not been fixed | 03:11 |
| qwebirc9273 | I think I could just unplug my windows drive and try again? | 03:11 |
| qwebirc9273 | only concern I have is how hard it would be to install lilo or grub | 03:11 |
| valorie | oh gosh lilo | 03:11 |
| qwebirc9273 | I could do that from the thumb drive right? | 03:11 |
| valorie | grub2 is what is used now | 03:11 |
| qwebirc9273 | oh wow ok | 03:11 |
| valorie | unsure that lilo is used anywhere now | 03:12 |
| qwebirc9273 | ahh yea sorry it has been a while | 03:12 |
| valorie | so, what I would do is use kde partitionmanager or whatever you like, and partition your new SSD before you start | 03:12 |
| qwebirc9273 | ok alright, I'll do that | 03:13 |
| valorie | have fun! | 03:13 |
| qwebirc9273 | thanks :) glad to be trying out linux again | 03:13 |
| valorie | cool | 03:13 |
| m_tadeu | hi...I'm using autofs to mount some samba shares...thing is, they don't only show up in dolphin after I access them the first time....how to make the visible on mount? | 09:01 |
| BluesKaj | 'Morning folks | 10:30 |
| Mylon | Help, I broke software updater. I added a custom repository and the software updater says that repository is missing something (a manifest? Message disappears), and updating refuses to progress and I can't close it via the gui, I gotta kill it. | 16:06 |
| Mylon | How do I revert it back to default repositories? | 16:06 |
| Mylon | Nevermind, I found the setting. | 16:13 |
| CrazyTux | which other DEs are compatible with Kubuntu? | 18:18 |
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