Lost ownership of home folder?

[penguinseverywhere]

Hi everyone,

I'm a bit of a Linux newbie so bear with me. I had a problem with Gnome-DO not starting on start-up. Searching this issue suggested that Gnome-DO was trying to start before a service that it needs to start and a script to fix the problem was provided:

!/bin/bash
sleep 10
gnome-do

When I try to save this file (using gedit) to any folder in my home directory, however, I get the following message:

Could not save file gnome-do-wrapper.

You do not have the permissions necessary to save the file. Please check that you typed the location correctly and try again.

I searched this error and results suggested that I needed to take ownership of my own home folder. Why this would be is puzzling to me, but anyway, I tried to do take ownership from the terminal (as the root) as such:

chown -R username /home/

and was met with the following error:

chown: cannot access `/home/username/.gvfs': Permission denied

Any ideas?

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

By default, you are already to owner of your own /home folder.

jay@jay-laptop:/home$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 52 jay  jay   4096 2011-06-22 05:12 jay

What steps are you following? I know you can't post a link just yet, but could you tell us what you Googled to get your instructions?

[penguinseverywhere]

I Googled "Gnome-DO startup problem." It should be the first hit (the Geek Lair one).

[jayd512]

I see... this should help.

$HOME is your home directory. Once you're in your Terminal session, type mkdir bin to create the $HOME/bin directory. After that, you will probably need to make sure that it's permissions are set to executable...

chmod 755 myscript.sh          (replace myscript with the name of your script

Try it then.

[penguinseverywhere]

Thanks so much! That resolved the issue.

[jayd512]

Good deal.
Glad to have helped