I recently installed ubuntu server edition on a g4 mac and got everything to work. At some point I uninstalled gdm, couldn't boot into linux, reinstalled it remotely but now I can't get it to work.
My terminal works fine, I've tried to purge gdm and ubuntu-desktop and reinstall but no luck.
When I start gdm I get to the login screen, try and login and then the 1st error I get says the dmrc file in the home directory has the wrong permissions. Even if I change those permissions i get the same error when I try again.
If I continue past that error I get and error saying:
Can't create dir /var/Desktop
Can't create dir /var/Documents
and so on through all the main folders
It seems like I have problems with permissions in the home and var folder but I don't know how to fix them. What are the permissions supposed to be?
hers' the ls -li info for var:
drwxrwr-x root root
and for home
drwxr-xr-x root root
Somebody please help, I really don't want to have to reinstall the whole thing.
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