HELP!!!!!

[Jon Piper]

Hi Everyone,

I'll jump in here eventhough I haven't followed the problem all the way 
through.  I have had this same problem many times. Every time I have 
changed distributions from SUSE, Mandrake, Mandriva, Fedora and some 
others to Kubuntu. Everytime it has not been a problem with the upgrade 
but with user permissions; the distributions listed above and some 
others start user ID at 1000 - Kubuntu begins at 500 so all of the 
permissions in the home directory are assigned to the root user. Of 
course that doesn't exist in Kubuntu (unless you change it).

The solution to the problem is to change all of the files in Home 
partition or folder to the user name.  This can be done entirely from 
Dolphin.
This is how:
1) select the View menu,
2) Select "Adjust View Properties"
3) change View Mode to "Details", check "Show Hidden Files" then click 
"Additional Information",
4) check Permissions, Owner, and Groups and anything else you need (I 
mark them all). click "OK".

Now you can see what the situation is and correct it by Right clicking 
on a file or directory (folder).  Click the permissions tab. The user 
should be set to "Can View and Modify Content" and the group should be 
set to "Can View Content". Un-check "Executable" and change the User and 
Group to the name of the user and group who will be using the files. If 
you have checked a directory, check the box at the bottom, "Apply 
changes to all sub-folders and their contents". You are done if 
everything works correctly; sometimes you have to do this to directories 
that didn't change - that little problem has existed for 10 years that I 
can attest to in every KDE distribution I have used. You can do the same 
thing from the command line, but its more trouble.

Have good fun -- its a great adventure.

Blessing,

Jon Piper
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On 11/21/2010 09:16 PM, Doug wrote:
> On 11/21/2010 08:08 PM, Jason E. High wrote:
>    
>> 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.
>>
>>      
> If you can't boot into the system, start a live disk and work from there.
> --doug
>
>