Strange behaviour after installation of Maya

[MartinRuthenberg]

I want to switch from Ubuntu to LinuxMint. Therefore I made a fresh installation and I like it so far. But several things don't work out of the box. To make it easier I'll start with a firefox problem. It want to save for example "Don't ask me any more" after closing open tabs, but firefox doesn't save it and instead aks me again and again. I have been using firefox for years now, but never had this problem before.

[xenopeek]

That happens sometimes. In your Firefox address bar type about:config and press enter. Accept the warning and proceed. Find browser.tabs.warnOnClose and browser.warnOnQuit, and make sure both are set to false (double-click a line to toggle between true and false). That should solve it.

[MartinRuthenberg]

Thanks, Xenopeek, for being that quick.

I only have browser.tabs.warnOnClose and it is already set to false. I have exactly the same problem closing and reopening Synaptic. It shows me the introduction every time I open it though it shouldn't.

In a terminal I entered "sudo chown -R user /home/user" and I got "Access to user/.gvfs not possible: no rights". Changing to superuser in generell gave the same result. I think that's very strange. I don't know yet, what the folder .gvfs is for but it s empty.

Hopefully this gives you or anybody else a hint.

Thanks in advance from the snowy black forest in southern Germany
Martin

P.S.: To the admins: If this is not a newby question any more, please move it to the right place.

[MartinRuthenberg]

Meanwhile I have learnt that gvfs stands for gnome virtual file system and that I made a mistake by executing the commands described above without being logged out from my desktop. In the german ubuntu forum I've found this:

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sudo chown -R USER:USER /home/USER
sudo chmod -R u+rwX /home/USER
sudo chmod 600 /home/USER/.dmrc
chmod 755 /home/USER

I'll be back and report after having tried this.

[MartinRuthenberg]

Ok, I have executed the above described commands from a console (logged out from graphical front end). But it didn't change anything. Instead I realized that packages were broken, when I wanted to install another theme via synaptic. I tried to repair packages out of recovery mode, but nothing happened at all. Than I tried to reinstall all my packages from a terminal:

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dpkg --get-selections | grep "\binstall" | awk '{print $1}' > /tmp/dpkg.log
sudo xargs -n1 apt-get --reinstall install -y < /tmp/dpkg.log

When I came back to my computer, it had stopped the process with an error message.

I did quite some ubuntu installations over the last five years and never had any problem with it before. This LinuxMint installation was absolutely fresh. I didn't do any configuring at all apart from installing a new theme and playing around with my desktop appearance. So I hope to get rid of the problems by installing the system from scratch again. If it doesn't work I'll have to look for another distribution and kde, what I wouldn't like to do at all.