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Re: All settings are lost at logout

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Den 2016-11-21 15:53, skrev Kent West:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 8:41 AM, <70147persson@telia.com  > <mailto:70147persson@telia.com>> wrote: > > > A[fter a reinstall of 
Debian] all looked very fine, and I decided to > restart the computer. 
The first observation was that suddenly all the > devices defined and 
mounted in /etc/fstab appeared as icons on the > desktop, and I could 
not remove them. Next was that all of my > settings of Caja file manager 
were gone. I use to make some personal > adaptation: first I prefer one 
mouse click to open a file from the > icon, the list view instead of 
icon view and a few other options like > these. Until now all of these 
settings has been saved and restored at > every login, but now they are 
lost and has to be redone every time. > The same deals with the wi-fi 
password, I have to write it in at > every login. > > Next observation 
is that I can  add no program starters to the panel. > Well, yes, I can 
add one starter, but no more, they do not appear > there. I can remove 
the first icon, and add another one, but still > just one. Creating 
them, even more than one, on the desktop causes no > problem. If all 
these effects come from the same source I do not > know, but I suspect 
they do. Some package might have unintentionally > been removed, but if 
so I have not been able to find out which one. I > have made reinstalls 
of al lot of them, e.g. mate-panel, but without > any result. Could 
anyone find the common factor, I would appreciate > it. If nothing else 
I will of course make a new reinstall, but it > takes a good deal of 
time, and I feel it ought to be unnecessary. > > Regards Kaj > > > My 
first guess is that when you didn't wipe your /home partition, you > 
preserved your old home directory, and then logged in after the > 
reinstall with the same name but different user ID, which means not > 
all of that directory belongs to you. > > I'd log out, switch to a VT 
(Ctrl-Alt-F2), log in as root, rename > your user directory (mv 
/home/kaj /home/kaj.bak), delete your current > user (deluser kaj), and 
then recreate your user (adduser kaj), so > that you have a fresh user 
directory. > > This is only one of two or three ideas that come 
immediately to mind > as a way to deal with / test my theory that your 
user directory > doesn't have the correct perms, but they all boil down 
to suspecting > your user directory perms, and fixing them. > > I doubt 
very seriously that a reinstall is needed. > > -- Kent > > > > > -- Kent 
West                    <")))>< Westing Peacefully - > 
http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Hi Kent. Thank you for your answer.

A wee of your thoughts I have had myself. Among others I have earlier 
noticed that all these hidden config files residing in the home 
directory can give very confusing results when you install a previously 
used program in a new environment. So I tested to move all these hidden 
directories, all starting with a dot, into a specially created 
directory, in order to being able to put personal settings back when the 
problem is solved.  When running the different programs, you can see how 
they create new hidden directories to put their config files in.

So this I have tested without success. Next I have created a new user 
(test) with an own, new home directory. No success on that neither.

So I think that I have tested the essential parts in your suggestion, 
even if I have not been that drastic to clean my home directory completely.

One reason for my suspicion of a mistakenly removed program is that the 
removal of PulseAudio also took away of a lot of other programs, e.g. 
Gimp. Those I have had to lay back manually afterwards. Despite a lot of 
searching however, I have not found which program or service is lacking.

/Kaj

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All settings are lost at logout 70147persson@telia.com - 2016-11-20 15:50 +0100
  Re: All settings are lost at logout Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-11-21 16:00 +0100
    Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-21 17:00 +0100
      Re: All settings are lost at logout Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-11-21 17:20 +0100
        Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-22 00:40 +0100
          Re: All settings are lost at logout Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-11-22 00:50 +0100
            Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-22 11:10 +0100
  Re: All settings are lost at logout Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-21 18:00 +0100
    Re: All settings are lost at logout Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-11-21 18:30 +0100
      Re: All settings are lost at logout David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 18:40 +0100
        Re: All settings are lost at logout Kaj <70147persson@telia.com> - 2016-11-22 14:00 +0100
  Re: All settings are lost at logout Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-11-21 18:00 +0100
    Re: All settings are lost at logout Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-21 18:20 +0100

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