Strange Permissions behavior

I have OS X 10.4.11 on an iMac with four user accounts. Everything has been fine.
Today I created a new user account from System Preferences, called "visitor". It seems to work, but I noticed something strange:
The files and folders in the "visitor" Home belong to user owner "visitor" and also to group "visitor". Seems strange, since my other users all have files and folders belonging to user owner (account name) and group owner "staff". Where did group "visitor" come from, and why does it not use the "staff" group ownership, as with the older user accounts? They are all standard accounts, except for one administrator.
For all that, it seems to be behaving pretty well, with one minor exception: With my administrator account, using Terminal, I cannot get access to the visitor account directories. When I do cd (directory name), nothing happens, not even an error message. A pwd reveals that the cd did not change the working directory. If I log in as root, I can roam this user hierarchy freely, but not as an admin user. I assume this has to do with the unexpected group ownership...
No serious problem, but the weird behavior has me believing I did something wrong. I tried running a Repair Permissions, but it did not change this.
I think I created those older accounts using the same procedure, but with earlier versions back to 10.2.

You didn't do anything wrong. That is normal in Tiger. In earlier versions of OS X and, I believe, in Leopard, users are members of the staff group and the standard ownership on files in their home directories is username:staff (i.e. owner username, group staff).
In Tiger, Apple changed this so that every user corresponds to a unique group of the same name. The default settings on files in users' home directories is username:username. When you created the new user, you also created a new group by the same name.
The older accounts reflect the settings in the version of OS X in which you created them. When you migrated those accounts to Tiger, the migration assistant must have brought the default ownership settings etc. over. It is actually these accounts which are anomalous by Tiger's standards. I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it, though, unless, perhaps, you have users you really cannot trust.
I believe the change in Tiger was security related. In Leopard, the default use of Access Control Lists is used to tighten security instead. Tiger's behaviour is odd, though, and certainly not standard unix behaviour.
sudo cd does not work. It has nothing to do with the group ownership issue:
pwd
-> /Users/myname/tmp
sudo cd /Users
-> password:**
pwd
-> /Users/myname/tmp
- cfr

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In an effort to promote iTunes U on campus this semester (and to get people working with audio and video more) we're having a contest in which people can submit personal or group audio/video projects.
This being an iTunes promo, we intend for students to submit their contributions via a drop box.
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Download: Student@urn:mace:lafayette.edu:classes:${IDENTIFIER}
For the "Featured" Submissions tab, I gave the non-system credentials the "download" right, and for the "Dropbox" tab I gave the non-system credentials the "dropbox" right.
My understanding of this setup is that everyone should have had the ability to view the course and the contents of the "Featured Submissions" tab and that those in the College/Instructor/Student roles would be able to upload files via the "Dropbox" tab ... but not see the contents of said tab after the files were uploaded (aside from any files they uploaded themselves).
This is not the behavior we saw however. While the College/Instructor/Student roles could upload files to the dropbox, everyone (including the unauthenticated public) was able to see all of the contents of the dropbox.
The only way I could get this to work as advertised was to change all of the system credentials save the "Administrator" to "No Access":
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Edit: Administrator@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
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No Access: Unauthenticated@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
No Access: All@urn:mace:itunesu.com:sites:lafayette.edu
Once I did this, everything worked as advertised: College/Instructor/Student roles could upload tracks, and the "Dropbox" tab would only display tracks they uploaded.
So my question is ... is this the correct behavior for the drop box? It looks like when the system credentials are in play, they're simply overriding whatever the normal "view" rule is for the drop box, which doesn't seem right.

Your current configuration where things work as you wanted does seem correct to me. You are not using any System Credentials to accomplish the functionality and that's fine.
Here's some more info to clarify how / why this is working for you and why you had to set "No Access" for the System Credentials:
The System Credential "Authenticated@..." is going to get assigned to any user that goes through your transfer script. Even if you transfer script assigns no credentials to a user, upon entering iTunes U they will have at least 1 - the "Authenticated@..." credential. Therefore, unless you block access using "No Access", any user that passes through your transfer script is going to be able to access the area in question.
When you change values for "Unauthenticated@..." or "All@..." you are defining what someone that DOES NOT pass through your transfer script can do. You want both of those to be "No Access" at the top level of your site if you do not want unauthenticated visitors.
The distinction between "Unauthenticated" and "All" is that "All" applies to all users whether they pass through the transfer script or not.
Here's another way to remember things:
User passes through your transfer script, iTunes U automatically assigns:
Authenticated@....
All@....
User does not pass through your transfer script and instead access your iTunes U site through derivable URL*, they get assigned:
Unauthenticated@....
All@....
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Hi, Guys !
It's been a while since I post something in this forum - trying to use your help when it's really needed.
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(we use Oracle 8.1.7 on Unix box and SQL * Plus 8.1.6)
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FUNCTION RECORD_EXISTS_FNC
(iBV_NAME IN USER_VIEWS.VIEW_NAME%TYPE,
iPK_FIELD IN USER_TAB_COLUMNS.COLUMN_NAME%TYPE,
iPK_VALUE IN NUMBER,
iSYS_TIME_STAMP IN DATE DEFAULT NULL,
iSYS_UPDATE_SEQ IN NUMBER DEFAULT NULL) RETURN BOOLEAN IS
TYPE REF_CUR IS REF CURSOR;
CR REF_CUR;
i PLS_INTEGER DEFAULT 0;
vRESULT BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE;
vQUERY USER_SOURCE.TEXT%TYPE;
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AND SYS_UPDATE_SEQ = ' || iSYS_UPDATE_SEQ;
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iPK_FIELD IS NOT NULL AND
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CLOSE CR;
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RETURN vRESULT;
EXCEPTION
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Thanx a lot for your help and time !
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see your other thread
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Edited by: Florian Guppenberger on Oct 8, 2009 4:36 AM
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Hi,
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To add one more observation, I have had Macs and other computers with failing GPUs. This computer is showing none of the typical signs of that. Every other program seems to be working just fine, and I have a lot of these, many graphics intensive; e.g., Corel Painter 11, Parallels v6 running Windows 7, PS CS4, Lightroom v3, Aperture v3, and so on. It is just CS5 that is messing up.
I could load up this message with screen shots of all this nonsense, but I'm not sure what that would add to the strange tale, other than I'm not pulling your legs. I am, however, pulling out my own hair.
As I stated before, this began quite suddenly a couple of weeks ago, early Feb 2011. My best guess as to cause is some combination of incompatible updates between CS5, OSX, and maybe some plugin or other. I found unusual behavior with onOne's FocalPoint v2 last year after Apple updated GPU drivers in some OSX update, and cratered that program. It took onOne a month or two to fix that. I have CS5 on a laptop with the same OSX version, and on that I haven't seen these issues; but then, I haven't been using it as intensely over there. Also, that machine has different CPU and GPU models than this iMac.
So, to the community: is anybody else starting to see this odd stuff? Am I alone?

Here's the reason I say that the same plugins exist for both CS4 & CS5. Sometime last year, the internal hard drive on this computer died (as they so often do), and it was replaced under the Apple care warranty. As a consequence, I decided to rebuild the OS and applications from scratch and bring back my user files from backup. I among other things, I reinstalled all of CS4 as well as CS5 (and I had to put CS3 back too for reasons having to do with printing calibration images for Quad Tone RIP). Then, I went to reinstall the plugins that I needed. I use Nik Software, onOne, Portrait Professional and various Topaz plugins. To my recollection, most of these install in PS CS3, CS4, CS5, Aperture, and Lightroom. In short, it is not that I've copied or moved plugin folders from one application folder to another, just that the installers automatically detect the presence of the various applications and put the various plugins into each, as appropriate.
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I've checked fonts and repaired permissions. I am presently going through the rather tedious process of disabling plugins and extensions to see if anything yields consistent results. The rather random arrival of the strangeness makes ensuring that a change is really having an effect more difficult to validate, as you will appreciate.
I apologize for my long-winded original post. I add all of the detail so that anyone who'd experienced similar strange behaviors might properly pattern-match what they were seeing. On the one hand, in finding the cause of a problem, you look for what's changed; and theoretically nothing is new. On the other hand, there's always so much changing behind the scenes with automatic updates of this, that, and the other thing that it's impossible to make the claim that nothing's new.

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So Mail doesn’t really crash (i.e. quit unexpectedly). Rather, it freezes (i.e. becomes unresponsive), right?
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617.022: [GC 617.022: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 2 (max 15)
- age   1:    5692768 bytes,    5692768 total
- age   2:    7245480 bytes,   12938248 total
: 162843K->12815K(173376K), 0.1169309 secs] 529141K->385068K(3145536K), 0.1174373 secs]
625.461: [Full GC 625.461: [CMS: 372253K->339701K(2972160K), 7.7926604 secs] 441112K->339701K(3145536K), [CMS Perm : 42370K->42365K(70560K)], 7.7930304 secs]
638.292: [GC 638.292: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 15 (max 15)
- age   1:   11656800 bytes,   11656800 total
: 148596K->11562K(173376K), 0.0623480 secs] 488298K->351263K(3145536K), 0.0626430 secs]
647.219: [GC 647.219: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 2 (max 15)
- age   1:    6907552 bytes,    6907552 total
- age   2:   10849624 bytes,   17757176 total
: 160170K->17555K(173376K), 0.0702888 secs] 499871K->357257K(3145536K), 0.0705854 secs]
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 2 (max 15)
- age 1: 10040928 bytes, 10040928 total
- age 2: 6314424 bytes, 16355352 total
: 166163K->16170K(173376K), 0.1313690 secs] 505865K->366339K(3145536K), 0.1317244 secs]
677.591: [GC 677.591: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 2 (max 15)
- age   1:    7434848 bytes,    7434848 total
- age   2:    9468264 bytes,   16903112 total
: 164778K->16729K(173376K), 0.0972700 secs] 514947K->373036K(3145536K), 0.0975715 secs]
693.301: [Full GC 693.301: [CMS: 356306K->331576K(2972160K), 7.8552099 secs] 456933K->331576K(3145536K), [CMS Perm : 42389K->42385K(70752K)], 7.8555908 secs]
723.852: [GC 723.853: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 1 (max 15)
- age   1:   16973408 bytes,   16973408 total
: 148585K->16780K(173376K), 0.0511865 secs] 480161K->348356K(3145536K), 0.0515633 secs]
731.778: [GC 731.778: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 15 (max 15)
- age   1:   11082328 bytes,   11082328 total
: 165365K->10984K(173376K), 0.1120166 secs] 496941K->352657K(3145536K), 0.1123337 secs]
748.204: [GC 748.204: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 2 (max 15)
- age   1:   10988304 bytes,   10988304 total
- age   2:    9895920 bytes,   20884224 total
: 159592K->20618K(173376K), 0.0905859 secs] 501265K->362291K(3145536K), 0.0911519 secs]
761.201: [Full GC 761.202: [CMS: 341672K->332480K(2972160K), 7.8236419 secs] 482082K->332480K(3145536K), [CMS Perm : 42428K->42423K(70752K)], 7.8240023 secs]
773.898: [GC 773.898: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 15 (max 15)
- age   1:    7615152 bytes,    7615152 total
: 148607K->7571K(173376K), 0.0428213 secs] 481088K->340052K(3145536K), 0.0431185 secs]
788.669: [GC 788.670: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 15 (max 15)
- age   1:    7301208 bytes,    7301208 total
- age   2:    4527856 bytes,   11829064 total
: 156179K->11730K(173376K), 0.0570250 secs] 488660K->344211K(3145536K), 0.0573087 secs]
811.502: [GC 811.502: [ParNew
Desired survivor size 12681216 bytes, new threshold 2 (max 15)
- age   1:   10153656 bytes,   10153656 total
- age   2:    6108192 bytes,   16261848 total
- age   3:    3770424 bytes,   20032272 total
: 160338K->19792K(173376K), 0.0822765 secs] 492819K->352273K(3145536K), 0.0826541 secs]

The times between the full collections you show are$ dc
10k
761.201 693.301 - p
67.900
693.301 625.461 - p
67.840 so regular as probably to be caused by someone calling System.gc() on a timer thread. Does that pattern hold for the rest of the log? It could be RMI, but that's not the default interval. (Use -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval= and -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval= to change the intervals.) You could try running with -XX:+DisableExplicitGC to see if that turns those full collections off, but then you'll really want to chase down why someone thought they were necessary.

IMac OSX 10.5.8 Strange Boot Behavior

Hello All,
I've got an Issue with my 2007 Imac. I've been struggling with it for almost the entire day and night, and after trying every trick I've found online, I can't get anywhere. Incoming Wall-O-Text, apologies, but I want to be as detailed as I can.
So what happened before it all went down was... I was poking around trying to free up disk space, going through every major directory and analyzing its size. I poked around in a lot of hidden and system files, but I was very careful not to modify or delete any of these. The only files I deleted were in the following directories:
Note: I did not delete entire directory, just specific files I've named
/Applications/World of Warcraft/...
     I deleted some old patch files and installer files
/Users/my_username/Movies...
     I deleted some old video files
/Private/Var/Folders/Dy/Dy3Jj8iy2eE8iGh3ej/Tmp...
     There were two large Screenflow files here, I deleted them. Also deleted a handful of other small files. These small, obscurely named files are the only ones I'm worried I shouldn't have deleted. Might have been careless, but they were in a temp directory right?
Only other thing I did was give myself R/W permissions to some folders that were locked to me, for the purpose of checking their size. Some of these included the Spotlight directory and other system folders. But once again, no modifications done here except the permissions.
Shortly after strange things began happening. My Google Chrome Window turned to a white screen. I could press back, forward, refresh, but nothing appeared in the window. I closed Chrome. I started Itunes and it failed to open. I tried to open it again, same result: crashed, critical error, etc. I didn't pay much attention to the error message unfortunately. I decided to do a quick reboot...well my OS never booted back up.
It got stuck on the grey screen with the Apple logo with the little circle underneath it, thinking. And it just sits there, for about two minutes... and then screen flashes black and it restarts itself. Apple chord sound plays, and back to the grey screen with Apple logo and circle. For two minutes, then black again, Apple chord, etc. etc. etc.
The process continues to repeat by itself. I let the process run for almost an hour before I gave up on it fixing itself.
System Specs:
2007 Imac, OSX 10.5.8, 20inch, 2.4ghz core 2 duo, 1gb ram, 250gb hd
I have the Install DVD and system reads it fine.
Since then I've been scouring these forums and others, trying most solutions I've found, such as:
Holding 'D' for hardware check (comes back clean)
Running Disk Utility from boot DVD (Verify Permissions, Repair Permissions, Verify Disk, and Repair Disk: ALL come back clean)
Resetting PRAM (held for 4 dings)
Resetting the SMC
Verbose Mode (It loads and I get to see some text, but still hangs for two minutes and restarts)
Safe Mode will NOT work, system hangs at same spot like always then restarts
Single User Mode (Loads the text like Verbose. I ran fsck -fy a few times, didn't change anything. I'd like to explore more commands in this mode)
DiskWarrior (First time through, graph produced 34% errors or whatever. I did a repair and rebuild. It executed fine. I Graphed a second time, it came up with less than 1% errors. Repaired and Rebuilt again successfully. I even used the 'Scavenge' mode. After all of this, boot still hangs and restarts)
Drive Genius (I executed everything under the 'Repair' tool. Twice. Came back clean both times)
Tried booting with various configurations of USB devices plugged-in / not plugged in
After all this, The machine behaves exactly like it did when the problem first happened, no change.
Things I haven't tried:
Target disk mode with another Mac (Don't have access to one unless I go way out of my way)
Reset NVRAM? (Can't get it to work, it just hangs like normal)
Some advanced Scripting in Single User Mode (Since this mode seems to work for me, maybe I can get something working here)Saw on some other site "try booting with "-x -f -v" Not sure what these do or how to do them
I don't have a backup even remotely recent, shame on me.
The strange thing that seperates my case from most others I've seen, is that I'm not having any errors in my disk checks and cleanups. And my DVD reads just fine. Most people are coming with errors after installing updates, or they can't boot from DVD, or getting "unrecoverable disk" errors.
For me, everything supposedly is in working order, but obiously it isn't. I'm still failing to see the culprit here.
One interesting thing is that in both Single User Mode and Verbose Mode, the last lines I see before It hangs are
AppleYukon2: Marvel Yukon Gigabit Adapter 88E8055 Singleport Copper SA
AppleYukon2: RxRingSize <= 1024, TxRingSize 256, RX_MAX_LE 1024, TX_MAX_LE 768, ST_MAX_LE 3328
I've seen other threads where people have almost these exact lines in their startup before stalling. Someone mentioned the hang could have something to do with these lines...
OR
whatever lines come immediately after these.
OR
It could be something completely unrelated. Who knows.
Thats all I can think of right now, I'm exhausted. I'd appreciate any and all help. I can't afford to lose the data on this machine
Look forward to hearing from y'all
Thanks guys

duringnieux pierre wrote:
if you got an external drive , try install a system on it then boot from it ( in that way your internal drive act as an external drive , then you can backup your files )
Firstly IF I have an un-bootable install, why would it suddenly become bootable if I used it externally rather than internally?
Anyways I tried to Create Image from my Macintosh HD and save it to external, and got this error:
"Unable to Create: input/output error"
This happened twice. I am about to use a different external HD, one which also has more space.
And Klaus,
I did read through the links you supplied. In the first link there is a giant list of all the files the archive function backs up. It backs up a lot, but not quite everything. If it backed up everything, they could just say "everything".
The directory I'm concerned with is the /Applications one. It seems the only things backed up in this directory are specific Apple apps, for exapmple:
/Applications/Chess.app
/Applications/Clock.app
/Applications/DVD Player.app
/Applications/Extras/BlastApp.app
I have many many GB worth of other apps I'd love to be able to load back up, rather than spend hours re-installing them.
But I will try to use the Archive and Install feature though, once I have safely backed up my files. I found this on the Apple site also:
Archive and Install installations require the largest amount of available disk space because you need to have room to preserve your existing System and the new one you are installing
On my 250GB HD, my installation uses 200GB, and I only have about 40GB free. Will Archive and Install be able to work with this little space?
Thanks

Strange permissions problem since 10.4.6 update

Have noticed a very strange problem which I think is related to 10.4.6 Am updating my web sites (to a Unix box) this weekend and I noticed that once uploaded the files could not be accessed (permission denied error). I looked at the files on my Mac and noticed that on the ownership and permissions settings, 'Others" was set to "No Access". I changed this to read only and uploaded again and problem fixed. It is reproducible and seems to be related to the files ending in html on my Mac, which by default are set to be opened by Safari (not sure why, all were set to BBEdit originally but a previous system update changed these). Did 10.4.6 introduce some security fix that changed the permissions of html files. If I create a new file using BBEdit I notice that Others is set to read only which is why I suspect 10.4.6 might have changed any Safari related files??
Tony

I'm not sure what happened to your permissions, but I just checked both a Safari html file and a TexEdit one, and both still have Others as read only. I also created an html file of this web page from the Safari View Source page, and it was, obviously, a Safari html file. The permissions were normal, with others having Read Only access.
Francine
Francine
Schwieder

Strange icon behavior

Since purchasing an iMac with Snow Leopard pre-installed, I've experienced a series of strange ‘icon bugs’, and the problem has persisted through to the latest 10.6.4 update.
Bug #1: Occasionally icons on the desktop will become pixelated and blocky, resembling MacOS 9 sized icons that have been over-magnified. If I restart the Mac or log out and back in again the problem will go away, at least until the next random occurrence. The problem seems to particularly affect icons for inserted CDs and DVDs, but I’ve also seen it occur with application and file icons.
Bug #2: Sometimes icons will disappear completely by becoming transparent. This has affected all kinds of file types, but particularly files that have been freshly downloaded to the desktop from Safari. I can resolve the problem by dragging the affected file into a freshly created folder and then back onto the desktop, at which point the icon reappears.
Bug #3: About 50% of the time I insert a USB thumb drive or mount a DMG disk image, the icon displayed on the desktop will be for a hard drive (i.e. the one used for the internal hard drive) and not the white icon normally used for mounted images.
These bugs only occur on the desktop. They never occur in other folders or in list view. I cannot isolate the cause to any particular task or process. Sometimes they happen immediately after a re-boot.

Create a new User go to System Preferences > Accounts > "+" (make it an admin acct) and test the apps in this new account, if they work the problem is isolated to your User and not systemwide.
If the issue is limited to your user account try going to Users/yourname/Library/Preferences and move com.apple.desktop.plist and com.apple.desktopservices.plist to the trash. Restart and test. You may have to reset some Desktop settings.
If that didn't work, start up in Safe Mode (It will take more time to startup in Safe Mode because it runs a directory check.)
If your Desktop icons function correctly that way, go to System Preferences >> Accounts >> Login Items, and remove them. Boot normally and test. If not go to/Users/yourname/Library/Contextual Menu Items and move whatever is there to the desktop. Then do the same with /Library/Contextual Menu Items. Lastly, try moving/Users/yourname/Library/Fonts to your desktop and restarting.
Log out/in or restart, if that sorts it start putting items back one at a time until you find the culprit.
If the issue is systemwide then, you may be able to repair this with the The 10.6.4 Combo Update This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update so it should overwrite any files that are damaged or missing. It does not matter if you have applied it before.
Remember to Verify Disk before update and repair permissions after update from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
-mj

Strange Client Behavior after upgrading to 10g

Hello Friends !!!!
Here is my scenario:
Oracle Database 10g 10.2.0.3
Windows 2008 Server SP2
After upgrading from oracle 9.2.0.1.0 and Windows 2003 Server I'm facing a strange behavior.
Many times over the days some machines do not release some table resources even having their status "INACTIVE" and the wait event "SQL *Net message from client" and wait class "IDLE".
Therefore, i got a lot of locked sessions, and users complaining..... until I kill them
The client machine was as well switched to Oracle 10g client....
Have you guys got any tips about this scenario?
Tks for any advice.

About the lock queue:
1. blocking session has an exclusive table lock on VENDEDORES table; this is very rare in application because most of the time not needed: application code should try to avoid to take such kind of lock.
2. blocked sessions request a row share table lock: it looks like that VENDEDORES table is a child table linked to some parent table with a foreign key constraint and that an index on the child table foreign key is missing (this kind of lock is requested if you DELETE from parent table or update parent table primary key).
About the lock session: this is the blocking session that is waiting since 19 seconds on client: it is likely an application issue: you should try to investigate what the client (aservice.exe) is doing while holding an exclusive table lock.

Strange wine behavior, home directory permission change!!

hi all, archers.
i'm an arch user since early 2007 and this is my first post. Since now i've always found every information needed and enjoyed this great distribution.
btw, now i have a strange behavior with last version of wine in extra repository (0.9.61).
situation:
clean wine install, w/o .wine prefix from previous version creation (i always redo prefix creation every new version).
the fact:
after wineprefixcreate, as usual, i execute winecfg for the last personalization and sound interface selection.
fortunately and surprisingly, i notice that my home directory AND my desktop directory have completely screwed up permission. they was set to 777!!! aargh!
my home desktop is not so critical mission but i think this is not good!!!
after some test, i can say, in this my strange personal experience, that it's winecfg fault. wineprefixcreate don't change any permission. this happen only after the first winecfg execution AND only the first time. following execution of winecfg does not trigger the fault.
googled anywhere but it seems that i'm the only one in the world with this wine strange behavior. Is it true? any else?
a little report of my config:
(multi device are all raid5)
/dev/sda2 ext2 /boot
/dev/md0 ext3 /
/dev/md1 ext3 /home
... other devices in irrelevant mount point.
not so strange rc.conf
untouched /etc/skel
not so strange gnome DE on top of GDM
not so strange any else
thanks in advance and good arching

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