on upgrade files in $HOME are owned by root so alacarte dies

[Michael]

Binary package hint: alacarte

Using Feisty beta, alacarte will not save new menu entrties to any folder. Also tried sudo alacarte and that does not save either. No error messages given.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Thanks for your bug report. Can you give a list of steps to reproduce the problem?

[Rajeev Nair (rajeev)]

HI

I too have the same problem .
Also it does not appear under accessories .

I have to do sudo alacarte to access it but it does not add any entries

Also right click on main menu > edit menus does nothing

[Rajeev Nair (rajeev)]

 If i type alacarte without sudo this is what it says

rajeev@rajeev-desktop:~$ alacarte
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 36, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/alacarte", line 32, in main
    app = MainWindow(datadir, version, sys.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MainWindow.py", line 49, in __init__
    self.editor = MenuEditor()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 36, in __init__
    self.__loadMenus()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 59, in __loadMenus
    self.save(True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Alacarte/MenuEditor.py", line 63, in save
    fd = open(getattr(self, menu).path, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/rajeev/.config/menus/applications.menu'
rajeev@rajeev-desktop:~$

[Rajeev Nair (rajeev)]

OK

I have an update

i changed ownership of files in my home directory in hidden

.local/share/applications and .config/menus

changed ownership to myself rather than root .

Works fine now . Is that how its supposed to be??

regards

rajeev

[robrichard (robrichard87)]

I had the same problem. Alacarte would not open unless run as root. Changing ownership to the directories mentioned above solved the problem.

[colinb4987 (thebucksstop)]

That's great, fixes the problem with no hassles.
Cheers
C

----Original Message Follows----
From: robrichard <email address hidden>
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Subject: [Bug 97460] Re: on upgrade files in $HOME are owned by root
soalacarte dies
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:40:54 -0000

I had the same problem. Alacarte would not open unless run as root.
Changing ownership to the directories mentioned above solved the
problem.

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on upgrade files in $HOME are owned by root so alacarte dies
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[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This is not a bug in update-notifier (it never runs as root). I reassign back to alacarte.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

Not sure what you expect alacarte to do about this.

[Michael (mike984)]

This behaviour has been corrected for some time and this bug should be closed.