HELP!!!!!

[Jon Piper]

Steve,
You are so right - I did swap the user ID values -- soooo if you are 
using (K)ubuntu the correct value for the user ID is 1000.  It will will 
automatically set the home partition user to root if it is less than 
1000 and will need to be changed before you can get write privileges; 
you will get the error on the first boot after installation. It isn't 
the fault of the installation, it just doesn't write to an existing HOME 
partition beyond making sure it is there - it knows what it is doing.  
Of course this won't happen if you have fresh install without a HOME 
partition, which creates other problems; the laptop I am writing this on 
hasn't had a fresh install since 6.04 which has saved me a lot of setup 
work -- (I hate to do the setup all over again) computer. If you get the 
error something like -- can't write to "/home/kde/share/.kde.config" 
probably all you have to do is change the user from root to the correct 
user -- you.  I did have to re-setup when kde 4.x.x from 3.5.?  I have 
been using this method since my UNIX days over 30 years ago.

Good, luck.

Jon Piper
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On 11/22/2010 02:47 PM, Steve Morris wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>>
>>