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Linux Issue on startup

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Ubuntu 8.04
On Startup, I am receiving an error which I am not familiar with.

User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This file should be

And I can't read the balance of the Error Message due to the font size... :lol:
Can someone assist with the diagnosis and debug, please?

A rookie Linux user, but I am comfortable with the terminal, if I have a good instruction set.

Thanks.

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Well not being an expert Ubuntu user but an expert google search user :lol: but I did find this command that might fix your problem haslip.

sudo chown yourusername ~/.dmrcchmod 644 ~/.dmrc

That should do the trick as it has a good successful rate fro mthe various topics I have seen about this.

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nope, didn't work, but this did:

sudo chmod 700 /home/jimsudo chmod 644 /home/jim/.dmrc
reference: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
For those wondering what the /.dmcr file does, it apparently manages the user language and encoding information on a per user basis.
refer to this article for more details.

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