User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored.

[marcocic]

Binary package hint: hal

ubuntu 6.01_
message: User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 3 09:36:02 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: hal 0.5.8.1-4ubuntu12
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux ubuntu-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[jerrylamos (jerrylamos)]

Hardy Alpha 4 20080201 says:
Users $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. The file should be owned by user and have 644 permissions.

O.K., so here's what the command line reports:

jerry@Compaq:~$ ls -l $HOME/.d*
-rw-r--r-- 1 jerry jerry 28 Jan 31 15:25 /home/jerry/.dmrc

which shows that the file is owned by user, me, jerry, and have 644 permissions, which it does.

How does this get fixed? I've another computer next to this one, same level, which doesn't get the error? It shows:

jerry@linux:~$ sudo ls -l $HOME/.d*
-rw------- 1 jerry jerry 28 Feb 2 17:36 /home/jerry/.dmrc

which is not 644, but do note I had to use sudo to see it. Used same CD to install both.

Any info I can supply?

Thanks, Jerry

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

What do you mean with 'ignored'?

[Peter F. (feith)]

I had the same problem with Hardy.
Changing the access right for .dmrc alone doesn't changed anything, but this sequence solved this problem (my user name is 'pit'):
cd /home
chmod 744 pit
cd /home/pit
chmod 644 .dmrc