baobab has wrong permission settings

[Sasa Paporovic]

Calling baobab as normal user and analysing the home folder(/home/user) makes baobab informing the user that /home/user

or included subfolders could not be read.

See attached screenshot(german language).

Steps to reproduce:

1.Call baobab
2.Analyse the home folder of the default user
3.See the error message in baobab descibed above.

Additional:

There are some files in /home/user created by sudo, but no folders itself.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: baobab 3.6.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Dec 23 14:24:31 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/baobab
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-22 (153 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120722)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no username)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: baobab
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-11-15 (37 days ago)
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2405): libappindicator-CRITICAL **: app_indicator_set_label: assertion `IS_APP_INDICATOR (self)' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2405): libappindicator-CRITICAL **: app_indicator_set_label: assertion `IS_APP_INDICATOR (self)' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2405): libappindicator-CRITICAL **: app_indicator_set_label: assertion `IS_APP_INDICATOR (self)' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2405): libappindicator-CRITICAL **: app_indicator_set_label: assertion `IS_APP_INDICATOR (self)' failed

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thank you for your report.

Does the following command show you anything when run as a normal user?

find ~ \! -readable

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

I am just on a different systemm which is a Ubuntu13.10 with baobab 3.7.x. The issue ocures there also.

Running

find ~ \! -readable

gives:

 find ~ \! -readable
/home/user/.cache/dconf
find: "/home/user/.cache/dconf": Keine Berechtigung
/home/user/.config/pulse/18a06665549c8896c1f7bfa15183d35f-runtime
/home/user/.thunderbird/kf7w69m8.default/lock
/home/user/.mozilla/firefox/6hbf1ldo.default/lock
/home/user/.kde/tmp-userhost
/home/user/.kde/socket-userhost
/home/user/.gvfs
find: "/home/user/.gvfs": Keine Berechtigung

"Keine Berechtigung" means "No access" or "No permission".

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

well, there you have it. your user does not have access to read the directories and files. how do you expect a process that is run with your privileges to get around that?

this a user error and thus invalid.

You can fix the problem one by one with "sudo chown -R user $problemdirectory" (look at the output of the find command)