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configuration file not writable

Asked by peter ratcliffe

New computer running Ubuntu 14.04 .
When I start an application, and this happens on more than one app, I get an error message
Configuration file ""/home/peter/.kde/share/config/knotifyre"not writable
If I exit the error message the application works normally except that it wont take any change to preferences.
This is beyond my skill level, so any suggestions welcome.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Please provide the output of the following terminal commands:

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
ls -la /home/peter/.kde/share/config/
ls -lad /home/peter/.kde/share/config/
ls -lad /home/peter/.kde/share/
ls -lad /home/peter/.kde/
ls -lad /home/peter/

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peter ratcliffe (pjcr) said : 		#2

Thank you, answers as follows. Sorry,but can't get screen shot to work. Output is in same order as questions.

Linux peter-desktop 3.13.0-43-generic #72-ubuntu SMP Mon Dec 8 19:35:06 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Codename: trusty
ls: cannot open directory /home/peter/.kde/share/config/ : Permission denied
drwxr----- 2 root root 4096 Aug 6 10:29 /home/peter/.kde/share/config/
drwxr-xr-x 5 peter peter 4096 Dec 23 15:29 /home/peter/.kde/share/
drwxr-xr-x 3 peter peter 4096 Dec 23 15:29 /home/peter/.kde/
drwxr-xr-x 37 peter peter 4096 Jan 12 19:07 /home/peter/

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#3

The root cause is visible in your output: wrong file access settings on the configuration directory.

Execute the terminal command

sudo chown -R peter:peter /home/peter/.kde/share/config

and then try changing configuration settings again to check whether this works as desired.

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peter ratcliffe (pjcr) said : 		#4

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.