HELP!!!!!

[Clay Weber]

On Monday, November 22, 2010 12:38:53 pm gene heskett wrote:
> On Monday, November 22, 2010 12:34:36 pm Jon Piper did opine:
> > 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
> > ***************
> > 
> > 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
> 
> Maybe I'm just a wee teeny bit old school here, but why use a file manager
> that was broken the last time I looked, when a calling up a terminal shell
> and "sudo chown thatuser:thatuser *" will do exactly the same?
> 
> Please don't make the 2 second job into half an hour's fiddling, its not a
> productive use of anyones time.

While the file manager isn't broken, the fact remains that the OP can't login 
to a gui desktop to use one. Which is why I gave the chown command to use. 
Though if the OP has another desktop environmment installrd (gnome, fluxbox, 
etc) it still could be done the gooey way from there :)

clay