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I'm using an N800 running Diablo. Lately I've discovered that I can't seem to install the bittorrent client, Transmission. When I try, the install appears to complete as normal. But then, if I try to run the program, I get the following error:

Couldn't open "/home/user/.config/transmission/lock": No such file or directory"

And in fact, if I go to the /home/user/.config directory (in xterm), no transmission folder exists. So the question is, why does the installer fail to create the directory? Any ideas on what the problem might be?

I've rebooted several times, uninstalled and reinstalled several times, but none of that made any difference.

Also, I've tried to install Feed Circuit (RSS) lately, and had a problem with that too. Again, it would appear to install normally, but after it did, when I tried to load the program, nothing would happen. No error, but after a bit it would become clear that it would never load (no processor/memory usage).

Has anyone had anything like this happen? Any suggestions? Thanks to all.

So no one else has ever had any problem similar to this? Anyone?

What if you create that folder yourself?

Well, I tried that (as root, created both the transmission and lock folders that the error mentioned), and now the error is slightly different:

Any thoughts on what is happening here? It seems like somehow the permissions on my .config directory might be set too restrictively (?). I'm not sure how that might've happened...I never modified them manually.

As a side note, the only other folder in that .config directory is pianobar, which I installed a while back. I don't really think that's related, but you never know, so I figured I'd mention it.

Errm. Well, don't try it as root, obviously... Please always try things as a normal user first. If you fail you can still try to do the same thing as root. ;-)

Right, I initially tried creating the directory as a normal user. That failed, telling me that I didn't have permissions. So only then did I go ahead and create it as root. (I figured maybe only root was supposed to have modify permissions to this directory...is that not the case?)

Maybe I should phrase this differently...can anyone tell me what their permissions look like for their /home/user/.config/ directory? If mine are different, I'll try changing them manually (once I refresh myself on how to do Linux permissions...it's been a while since I did that).

Thanks to all.