On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 11:50:54AM -0700, Gary L. Roach wrote: > When trying to install the Bacula backup system on my computer, I get the > following error: > > *QStandardPaths: wrong ownership on runtime directory /run/user/1000, 1000 > instead of 0*
Well, that error message is wrong. The correct owner of /run/user/1000 is 1000, not 0. What probably happened here is you logged in as your normal unprivileged user (with UID 1000) and then used something like su to temporarily gain elevated privileges -- but whatever method you used left some of your regular user's environment variables intact. These environment variables will refer to directories like /run/user/1000 which are yours, and not root's. > I have noticed the same problem on other software packages. I have searched > the internet for answers to this and have found dozens of cases with dozens > of different ways to fix the problem, none of which seem to work for me. As a first suggestion, it sounds like whatever you're doing expects a complete login environment belonging to root, rather than one belonging to you but with temporary powers granted. So, try launching a complete root login environment with "su -" or with "sudo -i" and see if that helps. Or, if you prefer, drop to a text console (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F2) and login directly as root there. Or, if you prefer, and if you've configured your system to allow it, you could try "ssh root@localhost".
