Weird and Sudden permissions problem

[Ian Goldberg]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 05:07:00PM -0500, Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   Just now I was listening to my music in xmms (mixed ogg and mp3) and 
> when I went to switch songs and it suddenly started scrolling like it 
> could no longer find the files. I verified that I had xmms-mp3 installed 
> and tried removing and re-adding the songs but it wouldn't add anything. 
> So, I poped open a shell to take a look. Everything -seemed- okay (all 
> files owned by my user and globally readable anyway) but alas, no help.
> 
>   Here is what happens:
> 
> [madison-rsR6PDGiyyg at public.gmane.org Music]$ ls -lah
> total 12M
> drwxr-xr-x  11 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:59 .
> drwxr-xr-x   7 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:59 ..
> drw-rw-rw-   7 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:59 Acid Mix
> drw-rw-rw-   8 madison madison 4.0K Jan 23 11:58 Ambient

You need "x" permissions on your directories.  That means you're allowed
to traverse into them.  You probably want 755 (rwxr-xr-x), or maybe
777 (rwxrwxrwx) if you for some reason you need other users to be able
to add and remove files to your music directories.

   - Ian
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