Dear RoboticGolem
Thankyou for your response. It was indeed a permissions problem, but farther up the line
in the /usr/share directory. Some idiot (me!) changed the permissions. I slept on the
problem the first night but it only came to me last night what I'd changed.
So I looked up in my book how to tackle permissions on the command line and it worked.
Shelagh
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:39:25 -0700, RoboticGolem <roboticgolem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, my permissions (and from what I understand) are drwxr-xr-x. Which makes sense to me cause on your system, root would be able to log in and no one else because you have the 'other read' flag removed. Type (as root):
chmod 755 /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve
then:
chmod 644 /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve/*
and that should get you going.
(assuming thats the only problem)
-Matt
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:36:49 +1000, Shelagh Manton <oneida@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Sorry, my last post didn't include that I'm still using Fedora core1.
I'm back on Windows (bother!) again. I've done something and I can't log
into the Gnome desktop.
The log in procedure goes well until I get to the log in page. Then I get a
message saying that it can't open
/usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve/Bluecurve.xml.
I opened one of the other terminals (ctrl-alt-f1) and looked for the file.
It is still there. But cd /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve complains that
Bluecurve is not a directory. Using vi on it tells me that Bluecurve is a
directory and that it includes Bluecurve.xml. I did open Bluecurve.xml with
vi and while I could not tell if anything was wrong with it, it had text in
it which seemed OK. Eg not scrambled text. I looked at the file permissions
and nothing obviously stupid there eg root owns it and drwxr-x--x (this is
approximate as I forgot to write it down). Where should I go from here?
Shelagh
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