Hello, I tried to install a Splash Screen from systemsettings and I got the next error. Installation of /tmp/LYHGao-Vivid-Splash.tar.gz failed: Could not move package to destination: /home/ezequiel/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/Vivid-Splash I tried others and they also failed to install. I did my mageia fresh install from mageia9-classi.iso
Dec 27 20:09:00 dbus-daemon[1164]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm' requested by ':1.181' (uid=500 pid=18173 comm="systemsettings") (using servicehelper) Dec 27 20:09:00 dbus-daemon[1164]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm' Dec 27 20:09:06 polkitd[2432]: Operator of unix-session:3 successfully authenticated as unix-user:dave to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm.save for system-bus-name::1.181 [systemsettings] (owned by unix-user:dave) Dec 27 20:11:42 dbus-daemon[1164]: [system] Activating service name='org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm' requested by ':1.189' (uid=500 pid=18336 comm="/usr/bin/sddmthemeinstaller -i /tmp/Vivid-SDDM.tar") (using servicehelper) Dec 27 20:11:42 dbus-daemon[1164]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm' Dec 27 20:11:46 polkitd[2432]: Operator of unix-session:3 successfully authenticated as unix-user:dave to gain ONE-SHOT authorization for action org.kde.kcontrol.kcmsddm.installtheme for system-bus-name::1.189 [/usr/bin/sddmthemeinstaller -i /tmp/Vivid-SDDM.tar.gz] (owned by unix-user:dave) It's working for me. Given the file name in /tmp/LYHGao-Vivid-Splash.tar.gz, I suspect the download only partially completed. Remove the file from /tmp and try again.
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Given the history of Ezequils machines and opened bugs, i suspect again files owned by root in the users home directory. This is caused by using „su“ instead of „su -„ See Bug 31647
It seems a frequent user error, already requiring a wiki entry... Unfortunately I have no idea how to prevent it without breaking a lot of things. @Ezequiel Partida Maybe you should alias su to "su --login" on your machines (not recommended for other users)
CC: (none) => geex+mageia
There is already a wiki article since 2020: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su And one could expect that a user who did the error several times and got already educated several times, learns from it…
(In reply to sturmvogel from comment #4) > There is already a wiki article since 2020: > https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su Yes that's what I meant. msec is already checking the ownership of .config directory, maybe it should also check its contents, that's all.
I've just seen the files were in ~/.local , this one is not checked at all.
It looks as if: $ ls -d /home/ezequiel/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/ $ ls -l /home/ezequiel/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/ is worth seeing. As sturmvogel suggests, this could be a permissions issue. Also after a failure like this, check at least the integrity of the source file /tmp/....tar.gz with: $ gzip -t /tmp/....tar.gz which would surely fail if the download was incomplete.
CC: (none) => lewyssmith