HELP!!!!!

[Jason E. High]

On 11/21/2010 07:57 PM, Bill vance wrote:
> Howdy folks;
> 
> Having a few minor problems. I saw something yesterday that looked like it might
> work on the list, so I typed in:
> 
>    aptitrude update
>    aptitude safe-upgrade
> 
> thinking that it hjad been long enough that various bug fixes etc.,
> would have been
> implemented.  While that seems to be the case with a couple things, some things
> still didn't seem to want to install corectly.
> 
> Now however, kde is sending me numerous popup messages saying that various
> of its config files are not writable.  trying, "chmod a+rwxrwxrwx
> .kde/config/*", didn't work, and returned a message that said It was
> a, "readonly file system".
> 
> Apparently something did that to all my hard drives, so now I have to
> post from the Public Library.  The last time anything like this
> happened, I wound up losing a
> bunch of stuff for having to re-install the whole shebang.
> 
> So how do I cure my drives of this unasked for disease?
> 
> Bill
> 

Check /etc/fstab to see if it's mounting your filesystem as read-only.

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Jason E. High