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Salahuddin
Asked: 2019-01-02 23:29:16 +0800 CST

Could not open directory '.dbus/': Permission denied

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I'm working on Ubuntu 18.04.01 using Guake terminal and zsh.

Every time I run a command in terminal I get this warning after executing this command.

Could not open directory '.dbus/': Permission denied

I noticed having this warning after installing zsh.

  • What does it mean?
  • How can I solve this warning?
command-line permissions zsh

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It seems like your ~/.dbus/ folder is owned by root instead of by your own user.

    If this is the case, you can:

    1. Remove that folder, using:

      sudo rm -rf ~/.dbus

    Or:

    1. Change the ownership to your-username / your-user-group using:

      sudo chown -R your-user-name.your-user-group-name ~/.dbus/

      Note: replace your-user-name.your-user-group-name with the actual values, e.g. if your user is sal and your group is also sal than it will be: sal.sal

    As @Pablo Bianchi added in the comments below, $USER environment variable holds your-user-name (and in Ubuntu your-group-name is usually equal to your username) hence in most cases you can run the following command:

        sudo chown -R $USER.$USER ~/.dbus/

    More info regarding Ubuntu environment variables can be found here

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