On Thu, 15 Dec 2016, crysman wrote:
Running mc as root is OK.Why is that so and how can I chage it, please? #crysman
Suspect user configuration error; could you please create a new user on your system, sudo -i -u newuser and run mc to see if it works? If yes, then it has something with your user profile and is not related to mc.
-- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev