new install on kubuntu 24.04 permission denied

VCV Rack
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when trying to open or save patches I get permission denied home/bill/.local/share/Rack2/patches

I was running an older verson of rack2 on 22.04 without problems but it had the .rack2 folder layout.

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So it’s a first-time install of Rack on this machine, and not an upgrade from an earlier version?

What’s the output of:

ls -la /home/bill/.local/share && \
ls -la /home/bill/.local/share/Rack2/patches && \
touch /home/bill/.local/share/Rack2/patches/blah

?

3

yes, its a fresh install … drwxrwxr-x 5 bill bill 4096 Sep 1 17:37 Rack2 drwxrwxr-x 2 bill bill 4096 Sep 1 17:46 RecentDocuments -rw-rw-r-- 1 bill bill 82377 Sep 1 17:46 recently-used.xbel drwxrwxr-x 2 bill bill 4096 Dec 3 2023 sddm -rw-rw-r-- 1 bill bill 81 Dec 3 2023 session_migration-plasma drwxrwxr-x 4 bill bill 4096 Sep 1 17:37 Trash -rw-rw-r-- 1 bill bill 3219 Aug 19 16:05 user-places.xbel -rw-rw-r-- 1 bill bill 2927 Aug 19 16:05 user-places.xbel.bak -rw-rw-r-- 1 bill bill 0 Aug 19 16:05 user-places.xbel.tbcache total 8 drwxrwxr-x 2 bill bill 4096 Sep 2 08:29 . drwxrwxr-x 5 bill bill 4096 Sep 1 17:37 … -rw-rw-r-- 1 bill bill 0 Sep 2 08:29 blah

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Hmm… you have the Rack2/patches/ directory and your user can write to it, so no problems at the Linux level. I only have two guesses left as to what could be wrong:

  • Rack is not being started as the “bill” user, or
  • You have some kind of security software/policy on the OS that prevents some applications, but not your shell, to write files to that location.

Honestly I couldn’t tell without running that version of Kubuntu myself. Try and comb through your settings for any kind of “app permission” or “selinux” policy settings. That’s the only thing I can tell you. If you don’t find anything write to support@vcvrack.com with your problem.