couldn't save setting in midnight commander because configuration files were owned by root

Bug #143959 reported by Mikołaj Zalewski
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mc (Baltix)
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mc (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: mc

Is quite possible that I've run mc for the first time using sudo. This affected both mc and mcedit. After changing the ownership of the files it got fixed.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 RC or later?

Changed in mc:
status: New → Incomplete
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

Changed in mc:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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