[ale] weirdness

[DJ-Pfulio]

Have you **ever** use sudo with any GUI program like gedit, nautilus, or
any other tool?

        The short answer is DON´T DO THAT.

sudo chmod -R userid.userid ~/

will fix it. Change out ¨userid¨ for your real userid and primary group,
of course.

Looks like the system had a group removed too.  Is this an NFS mount?

On 06/05/2016 01:27 PM, kilpatms at comcast.net wrote:
> Basic problem:  Evolution has lost its mail folder database and can not display a new email nor can it send one out. (I do NOT like gnome and would IMMEDIATELY move the entire desktop to KDE but CentOs makes that almost impossible.)
> 
> Anyway, in trying to unscramble the mess I discovered this oddity:
> As root when I do an <ls -al> on ~/.local/share, I get this:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root   57 Jan 11  2015 .
> drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root   18 Aug 26  2014 ..
> drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Oct 18  2015 akonadi
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root   54 Aug 26  2014 icc
> drwx------. 3 root root   20 Jan 11  2015 nautilus
> drwx------. 4 root root   29 Aug 26  2014 Trash
> 
> 
> But when I run the same command as user, I get this:
> 
> [kilpatms at localhost share]$ ls -al
> total 52                                                                                                                        
>  23 kilpatms  1000 4096 Jun  5 08:07 .                                                                               
>   3 kilpatms  1000   18 Aug 17  2014 ..                                                                              
>   5 kilpatms  1000 4096 Jun  5 07:51 akonadi                                                                         
>   4 kilpatms  1000   35 Aug 17  2014 akonadi_maildir_resource_0                                                      
>   2 kilpatms  1000 4096 Apr 26 08:30 applications                                                                    
>   2 kilpatms  1000   31 Aug 17  2014 contacts                                                                        
>   7 kilpatms  1000 4096 Jun  5 08:14 evolution                                                                       
>   2 kilpatms  1000   30 Aug 17  2014 folks                                                                           
>   3 kilpatms users   21 Sep 13  2014 gegl-0.2                                                                        
>   2 kilpatms  1000   79 Aug 18  2014 grilo-plugins                                                                   
>   2 kilpatms  1000   76 Jun  5 07:56 gvfs-metadata                                                                   
>   2 kilpatms  1000 4096 Jan 14 14:38 icc                                                                             
>   2 kilpatms  1000   46 Jun  5 07:56 keyrings                                                                        
>   5 kilpatms  1000   36 Aug 17  2014 local-mail                                                                      
>   5 kilpatms  1000 4096 Nov 12  2015 mime                                                                            
>   3 kilpatms users   20 Apr 15  2015 nautilus                                                                        
>   5 kilpatms  1000   36 Aug 17  2014 notes                                                                           
>   1 kilpatms users 9061 Jun  5 08:07 recently-used.xbel                                                              
>   1 kilpatms users 9475 Jan 28 21:52 recently-used.xbel.G221BY                                                       
>   3 kilpatms  1000   28 Aug 17  2014 telepathy                                                                       
>   2 kilpatms  1000    6 Aug 18  2014 totem                                                                           
>   3 kilpatms  1000   17 Aug 18  2014 tracker                                                                         
>   4 kilpatms  1000   44 May 21 09:01 Trash                                                                           
>   1 kilpatms users 1478 Jan 15 22:23 user-places.xbel                                                                
>   1 kilpatms users    0 Jan 15 22:23 user-places.xbel.tbcache                                                        
>   2 kilpatms users   20 Mar 18 11:10 vlc                                                                             
>   3 kilpatms  1000   25 Aug 17  2014 webkit  
> (PERMS deleted for brevity)
> 
> So on the command line as user I can reach ~/.local/share/evolution, but as root I can NOT do so!
> 
> WTF!
> 
> I tried removing and reinstalling Evolution. Didn't help.
> Two questions:
> 
> 1.  Does anyone have an explanation for this oddity? Note that as root, the ls command misstates the ownership of the files as well.
> 2. Can anyone point me to a repo for CentOs/Fedora that has the missing parts of KDE, specifically kmail?
> 
> 
> Sean
> 
> ps  Had to send this out via webmail
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