On 1/5/23 14:45, Charles Curley wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 09:12:58 -0500 Frank <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:Yes, the file exists and is owned by lightdm. I don't know whether this is correct as I can't find any info on who should own it.It would be more useful to those trying to help you if you showed theactual results rather than telling us what you find significant.
Agreed in retrospect
Like so: root@hawk:~# ls -ld /var/lib/lightdm drwxr-x--- 6 lightdm lightdm 4096 Oct 29 2021 /var/lib/lightdm root@hawk:~# ls -la /var/lib/lightdm total 28 drwxr-x--- 6 lightdm lightdm 4096 Oct 29 2021 . drwxr-xr-x 70 root root 4096 Sep 30 16:10 .. drwxr-xr-x 7 lightdm lightdm 4096 Oct 29 2021 .cache drwx------ 5 lightdm lightdm 4096 Mar 5 2022 .config drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 19 11:54 data drwxr-xr-x 3 lightdm lightdm 4096 Oct 29 2021 .local -rw------- 1 lightdm lightdm 686 Jan 5 11:35 .Xauthority root@hawk:~# Note that I include the trailing prompt to show that the command ended rather than that the result was truncated. This is from a working system which I have rebooted since most of those dates. You may find it useful to check against your directory.
I did indeed. In checking what I had there were a couple of differences which hadn't seemed to make much difference. But I have fixed those now.
I appreciate your help. -- Frank McCormick