HELP!!!!!

[Steve Morris]

On 23/11/10 03:24, Jon Piper wrote:
> 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 
Thought I'd jump in here temporarily, you actually have this the wrong
way around, Mandriva etc start their uids at 500 and Kubuntu/Ubuntu
start at 1000. I've had to change this trait in Mandriva when sharing
home partitions between Mandriva and Kubuntu/Ubuntu.

regards,
Steve

> 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
>>
>>    
>>     
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