Unable to write to home dir at times.

[jonathan]

chris wrote:
> (Sorry if this is a dupe... I somehow got unsubscribed from the list
> so I don't think my post made it to the list... my apologies if it did
> and this is a dupe.)
>
> Installed 7.04 of Ubuntu and love it.
>
> However over the last couple days or so, I've been having and
> interesting problem.   Every so often a program will have issues
> writing to my home directory.   Never had this trouble up till now and
> I've not messed with permissions on the home dir itself or the
> sub-dirs under it.
>
> Example, I was using gFTP to download some pictures from a friends FTP
> server.  It created the sub-dirs fine, but couldn't write any of the
> pictures to the directory.    Another example I just ran into is I was
> attempting to install a new extension in Firefox and it couldn't.
> Said it needed write permissions to chrome directory.  I checked all my
> permissions and they are owned by my user id/group id.  And rebooting
> didn't help.
>
> I'm at a complete loss as to why this happens and why it happens intermittently.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions or anyone else seeing this issue?
> It just started a few days ago.  During that time, I've done the
> updates that the update mngr was telling me about but can't remember
> what all was updated.
>
> Thanks
>   

Had the same problem when I first started with feisty.what happens as 
soon as you set permisions they got back to the original permisions as 
soon as you close file.try logging in as root via gnome window then try 
seting permisions again logout the sign in as regular user hope I have 
helped.