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When I boot up I get a message saying user $home .dmrc ignored. What can I do about this?
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Re: .dmrc ignored

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The permissions in your /home folder has changed. Have you done anything recently to change it?
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Oh I'd be willing to bet you changed permissions on either your home folder, or a sub-folder of it. I had this issue once, and the fix wasn't pretty. I had to delete the user, and delete the user's home folder. I then had to re-create the user again after words. This was a pain in the rear end as it was my main user 1000. The lesson I learned from this was never ever modify home folder permissions other than the data folders like music or documents.

Also I should state that I certainly tried to repair the damage first. I fixed the permissions on the .dmrc file the computer was referencing. It just didn't work.
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Find the .dmrc file in your home folder, open it and check the contents, it should say "Session=Gnome" (depending on what version your running!), if it says anything else, change it.
...another option is to delete it, and the system will create a new one on your next login.
I first got this error after installing The main edition after KDE with the /home being intact from the former install.
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Zwopper wrote:another option is to delete it, and the system will create a new one on your next login.
Damn really? I wish I would have known that back when I had the same problem. While my solution worked it was a hell of a lot more complicated. I can't believe all I had to do was delete the file, lol.
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67GTA wrote:The permissions in your /home folder has changed. Have you done anything recently to change it?
Not that I know of.
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Lantesh wrote:Oh I'd be willing to bet you changed permissions on either your home folder, or a sub-folder of it. I had this issue once, and the fix wasn't pretty. I had to delete the user, and delete the user's home folder. I then had to re-create the user again after words. This was a pain in the rear end as it was my main user 1000. The lesson I learned from this was never ever modify home folder permissions other than the data folders like music or documents.

Also I should state that I certainly tried to repair the damage first. I fixed the permissions on the .dmrc file the computer was referencing. It just didn't work.
I already tried changing the permissions on the .dmrc file with no help. It looks like there may be an easier way than yours so I'll try them first. :D
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Zwopper wrote:Find the .dmrc file in your home folder, open it and check the contents, it should say "Session=Gnome" (depending on what version your running!), if it says anything else, change it.
...another option is to delete it, and the system will create a new one on your next login.
I first got this error after installing The main edition after KDE with the /home being intact from the former install.
I'll try changing Session=default to Session=Gnome and see if that helps then I'll delete it.
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I tried changing the contents no help. I tried deleting it and it did not make a new one. So I am creating one and we'll see.
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Re: .dmrc ignored

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Post the output of

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ls -l .dmrc
from a terminal.
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I had this problem in Ububtu and I fixed it w/this command:

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chmod 700 /home/<yourusername>
chmod 644 /home/<yourusername>/.dmrc
reboot now
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darco wrote:I had this problem in Ububtu and I fixed it w/this command:

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chmod 700 /home/<yourusername>
chmod 644 /home/<yourusername>/.dmrc
reboot now
good luck!
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Thanks darco, that fixed it. And thanks to everyone that tried to help. You guys are great.
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