#9069 NORM Not Tri: root owns /home/olpc/Activities

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#9069: root owns /home/olpc/Activities
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 Reporter:  pgf                    |                 Owner:               
     Type:  defect                 |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal                 |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  not assigned           |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:  activities home chown  |           Next_action:  diagnose     
 Verified:  0                      |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:                         |              Blocking:               
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 today i helped someone who was having upgrade problems
 (going from 650 to 767).  the upgrade was fine, but the activity
 installer wouldn't do anything.  in the end, we discovered
 (thanks to a suggestion by kevix on irc) that
 /home/olpc/Activities had ownership root:root.

 i've found several bugs in trac related to incorrect permissions
 on the Activities directory (e.g.  #5320 #7537 #5433).

 does anyone recall a bug related to ownership?  or have ideas
 what might have caused this?  the owner
 had never done any other upgrades.  they had installed opera via
 an rpm at one point.  they claim this was their only non-standard
 installation.

 quoting from IRC:
 {{{
 <Violet-Gold-15> 12:40:58> -... I have updated to 767 but can't install
 applications.  Can someone please help me.
 <Violet-Gold-15> 12:41:42> -I select 1 or more activities to update and
 click install selected
 <Violet-Gold-15> 12:42:22> -The screen changes to "downloading updates"
 and a progress bar appears with "starting download"
 <Violet-Gold-15> 12:42:42> -but nothing happens after that.  The XO is
 definately connected to the internet.
 <Violet-Gold-15> 12:43:14> -There is never any progress shown in the bar,
 no activities are installed /updated and no Sugar activities ever appe>
 <Violet-Gold-15> 12:43:54> -I also tried this twice, i.e., reinstalled
 olpc-update 767 but get the same results
 <Violet-Gold-15> 12:45:23> -I even downloaded G1G1 activity pack to a USB
 and restarted the XDO with the USB attached.
 }}}

 i've reproduced these exact symptoms by manually changing another laptop
 back to root:root ownership of the Activities dir.

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