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[Dave Kokandy <drkokandy@xxxxxxxxx>]

The new bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-meta/+bug/1419366

Anyone who has ideas, please crunch on the live image and edit or add any
relevant details to the bug.

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Dave Kokandy <drkokandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Brendan,
>
> On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Brendan Perrine <walterorlin@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I found that in the vivid live session amd 64 for 0207 there were some
>> problems with live session in the config and keybinding the ones for run
>> dialog and menu and to lauch pcmanfm do not work and that
>> .config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml is missing and reported in this bug here
>> along with the problems of changing the title bar from lxapperance which
>> also complains that the title bar is missing. as reported here
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-default-settings/+bug/1419334
>>
>>
> This seems to be caused by the same root (pardon the pun) cause of a pair
> of previously-reported bugs on the live session:
>
>    - Lubuntu Software Center will not run on LiveCD. Root owns ~/.config
>    so can't write ~/.config/lsc/LSC.ini:
>    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-software-center/+bug/1414366
>    - Xpad fails to load on Lubuntu 15.04 LiveCD because root owns
>    ~/.config: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xpad/+bug/1414341
>
> I have been trying to pin down *WHY* root owns the /home/lubuntu/.config
> folder, but so far I can't figure out what is doing it.
>
> I'm not sure how to file a bug about this directory's permissions, because
> I have no idea what package is causing it.
> Here's what I know so far:
>
>    - Root is the owner of /home/lubuntu/.config and the only user with
>    write permissions.
>    - The only item in this folder is a 0 byte file,
>    /home/lubuntu/.config/ubuntu-system-settings/wizard-has-run
>    - ubuntu-system-settings is the help wizard for Ubuntu Touch. The
>    ubuntu-system-settings package is NOT on the live USB, nor would there be
>    any reason for it to be a part of Lubuntu at all.
>
> My hypothesis is that something is causing root to touch
> /home/lubuntu/.config/ubuntu-system-settings/wizard-has-run somehow that
> creates an empty file there before the rest of the directory structure is
> built. I have no idea how to try to track down what might do that. I
> haven't found anything blindly looking through log files.
>
> *Anyone on the list have any ideas?*
>
> In any case, that permissions problem seems to be the root (whoops, same
> bad pun) cause of your new bug as well as these two earlier bugs. I'll
> create a bug report and file it against lubuntu-meta, because I can't
> figure out what else to file it against.
>