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On Feb 11, 2012 7:19 AM, "Timothy Murphy" <<a href="mailto:gayleard@eircom.net">gayleard@eircom.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> Pete Travis wrote:<br>
><br>
> >> > Why do you need to run this as root?<br>
> >><br>
> >> I ran it with and without sudo,<br>
> >> just to see if there was any difference.<br>
> >> There wasn't.<br>
><br>
> > It it in your best interests to get out of that habit. You are going to<br>
> > start seeing strange problems you don't understand, and things will break<br>
> > in ways that are hard to troubleshoot and fix. Your system sounds pretty<br>
> > mixed up, and I'm guessing that running things as root unecessarily is a<br>
> > contributing factor.<br>
><br>
> I think you are talking nonsense.<br>
><br>
> I ran a command normally (as myself), and it did not work.<br>
><br>
> So I ran it with sudo, to see if there were some permission problem.<br>
> It still didn't work, so the problem was not one of permissions.<br>
><br>
> This seems to me a perfectly normal procedure.</p>
<p>Not in my world. I put a bit of thought into what I'm doing. Why would google only allow the root user of your local system to access normal user data stored on their system? </p>
<p>> I don't think my system is at all "mixed up", whatever that means.<br>
></p>
<p>You've started at least five threads on various problems in recent days. I stopped keeping track.<br></p>
<p>> Personally, if I have a problem I try everything I can think of<br>
> or that is suggested, to try to solve it.<br>
I'm suggesting you use your root account responsibly. It's your system, do what you will, but you came here for support and this advice is part of it.</p>
<p>> The question was, could I have contacts in my Google account<br>
> that I could not see with my Firefox browser</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>> (which seemed just possible, since the Google toolbar<br>
> is no longer available in Firefox)?</p>
<p>Dropping core features of a multiplatform cloud service based on the presence of a specific search helper extention in one browser on one machine sounds confusing and difficult. How could google anticipate that a given android user would later use a browser without the toolbar?</p>
<p>> Accordingly, I ran the CLI application googlecl<br>
> (called google, confusingly), first as myself, and then with sudo.<br>
> Neither saw any new contacts in my Google account.<br>
></p>
<p>Get your phone syncing first, then figure out google-cl. </p>
<p>> I don't know if you read my original query,<br>
> but my problem is that my Android phone does not seem to be sync-ing<br>
> with my Google account, although it says it is.</p>
<p>Are you sure the contacts are gmail account contacts? You could have chosen to save them only as device contacts - and i doubt there is a mechanism to sync them, considering the great effort put into integration wirh Google services to provide this functionality.</p>
<p>> This has nothing at all to do with my laptop,<br>
> whose health you seem to be concerned about.<br>
></p>
<p>This has nothing to do with Fedora. You need to read your phone's manual. This should be no more complicated than adding your gmail account to Thunderbird or Evolution.</p>
<p>--pete<br>
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