[SOLVED] home folder issue.

Im having some strange issues with my home folder.
I followed the "beginners guide" by adding a user with this command: "useradd -m -g users -G audio,lp,optical,storage,video,wheel,games,power -s /bin/bash archie", but with my username.
But when i try to start transmission i get this error:Couldn't open "/home/steffa/.config/transmission/lock": No such file or directory. But im able to open transmission if i use the sudo command.
The same problem occurs when i try to use menumaker. i get this output:
[steffa@myhost ~]$ sudo mmaker -vf OpenBox3
Password:
* scanning
desktop... 24 apps found
legacy... 11 apps found
debian... 71 apps found
* merging... 38 coincidings detected
* generating
no terminal emulator specified; will use the default
using Xterm as terminal emulator
* writing to ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml
* done
But reconfigure openbox doesnt change the menu at all. it is still the default menu.xml
I also get this error when trying to launch chromium:
[2389:2389:154808490:FATAL:chrome/browser/browser_main.cc(771)] Check failed: PathService::Get(chrome::DIR_USER_DATA, &user_data_dir). Must be able to get user data directory!
All other applications works just fine.
Last edited by stiffy420 (2010-10-26 22:23:39)

stiffy420 wrote:SOLVED!
Great, please mark your topic solved by prepending it to the title.
why did root own my home folder?
I'm not sure, it happened to people before so maybe someone else can shed some light on this.
i did "sudo chown -R steffa:users /home/steffa" i read somewhere that that is the correct way. am i wrong?
Yes that's fine, the extra :users part also assigns it to the users group.

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juraskaz wrote:Some information from commands to get more clear view:
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