xfce startup message (solved)

[Yankee]

Anyone ever seen this message ?

At the login screen after entering password-

"users $HOME/.dmrc is being ignored
prevents default session from being saved
should be user owned and have 644 permissions
not written by other users"

It doesn't seem to affect performance, and started after
recent updates this week.


thanks,

patrick013

[Texstar]

My .dmrc file in my home folder is owned by texstar:texstar with permission of 600. I'm not getting your error message when logging into xfce or any other desktop.

[Yankee]

patrick ... your instyall is the task-xfce install? ... this occurs because you try to set XFCE as your default DE .... i have experinced this previously ... i simply moved the file to my desktop and recreated the file in /$HOME/ and set it's permissions to 644 ... through terminal by using chmod 644 .DMRC command ... and ensured that the user is the owner

Kori

Hi Sproggy,

I didn't set anything as default, only odd thing I did was setting some permissions to try to mount some
usb drives in LXDE (this one included).  Anyway to set all permissions back to default ?  Probably not the problem tho someone said.  Xfce seems to be quite plug n' play compared to the staticness of LXDE when I plug in a usb drive requiring some fstab work rather than only a possible quick switch to root then in Xfce.
Alot more flexible I discovered.

Anyway, I saved a new file to /$HOME/ and it showed up in /home as .dmrc.  Ran the command OK,
rebooted and the error message still remains.  File says it belong to me, etc..  Otherwise it's working
OK.

Is there a Xfce2010.10 coming next week ?   Probably grab it and do a quick reload of a few things.


thanks for your response,

Patrick013

[Yankee]

you have xfce and lxde on same install??? ... how many other DE's are installed???

Wait a minute...any Linux distro here is on a separate disk (or flash drive) just so they
don't interfere with each other.  I don't want to dual boot or load up multiple versions on
the same disk,  just in case something crashes or whatever.   I'm not that experienced
to remedy a bad install or GRUB configuration that might affect a whole disk and I'm
happy with that.

XP's on the C: drive, Xfce's on the usb portable hard drive, and any other Linux's for testing
and stuff I put on a flash separate usb disk drive (usb flash drive stick or key).  I'll never dual boot my
XP C: drive for example.  The LXDE I looked at was on a separate completely independent flash drive.  

I love the way xfce registers usb's on the desktop.  I can't get LXDE to do that without undue
work, but who knows, tomorrow they might all, but not today.   Only aberration with that.
I'm on a xfce flash drive right now.


Oh well, have a good one,


Patrick013

[Yankee]

Had some time to upgrade today (84 files).  When over and rebooted the old error message
disappeared.  Second time this happened.  Had a problem with Keepass or Gnumeric awhile
back and after upgrading a few weeks later the problem disappeared.

I guess I'll let you know and wait for an upgrade. 


Cheers,

Patrick013