[GRLUG] possible problems unforeseen

[Rick Vargo]

Jason Kisner wrote:
> Hello again. I wish I had something to contribute for all the help I
> get from you guys, but unfortunately I'm not quite that Linux-wise.
> Well, I was going to bring this up in "Missing GLX" but thought it
> better to have as a seperate discussion. Well, recently, everytime I
> log on my computer I get an error/warning saying this:
>
> "Users $HOME.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default  "
> "session and language from being saved. File should be owned by    "
> "user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be    "
> "owned by user and not writable by other
> users.                                 "
>
assuming that jason is your username (if not substitute the correct one
for each jason below)
chown -R jason.jason /home/jason
chmod 644 /home/jason/.dmrc
>
>
> This happens right before the actual log in sequence. I also get
> another error when it finally logs on. It says:
>
> Failed to initialize HAL.
>
I don't know what distro you are using... Most likely your user account
doesn't belong to the whatever group is required to utilize the HAL.
>
>
> Whatever that is, I have no idea. I just hope it doesn't mean anything
> serious. I wish I knew more about Linux to not have to rely on you
> guys so much. Thanks a bunch.
>
>
>
> -- 
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> Worromot rof nalp, yadot rof evil.
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