Ubuntu
rosegarden package

Can't run rosegarden

Asked by Dylan Taylor

Binary package hint: rosegarden

When trying to run rosegarden I get the following terminal output:
dylan@DYLANTAYLOR-PC:~$ rosegarden
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/tmp-DYLANTAYLOR-PC: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/socket-DYLANTAYLOR-PC: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/dylan/.kde/socket-DYLANTAYLOR-PC: Permission denied
kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Permission denied
Could not bind to socket '/home/dylan/.kde/socket-DYLANTAYLOR-PC/kdeinit__0'

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: rosegarden 1:1.7.2-2ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rosegarden
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-12-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #379249.

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Dylan Taylor (dylanmtaylor) said : 		#1
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) said : 		#2

You appear to have messed up the permissions of your home directory. Try running the command "chown -R dylan.dylan ~/", and this should fix your problem. This is usually caused by running GUI apps as sudo, when they should be run with kdesudo or gksu.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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