Dear Civilme:
All my thanks for your help. The commands didn't work, unfortunately,
but I am grateful for your coming to my rescue.
I think I know what caused this whole problem: An installation or two
ago, I tried to delete my /home/sher directory but I think I did it
improperly by deleting all the subdirectories and files from my
/home/sher directory and then deleting the /home/sher directory itself.
This may have caused a conflict of sorts when reinstalling it. I should
mention that this has happend at least twice. So, perhaps there was some
sort of vestige in my system that corrupted my /home/sher directory.
At any rate, I plan to reinstall 7.1 from scratch by FTP a little later
this morning.
The silver lining to the cloud: I finally figured out (I know this
sounds dumb) how to select or unselect the programs and files under
"Select Individual packages". I have been trying to figure this out for
some time. In 7.0 you could just highlight a whole category (as Expert)
and then add it to your download. Apparently, in 7.1 you can't do that.
You have to open up each category with your mouse, then each
subcategory, then highlight each file (with information on each file in
the right pane), then select it with your mouse (a yellow check is then
placed in the blank square) and you can see your download size increase
accordingly. Now I can add certain files that I know I need and that I
can make use of.
Finally, I have formatted both hda and hdb (which contains my /home
directory) so that everything should now be as clean and pure as snow.
You live and learn!
Thanks so much again.
Benjamin
Civileme wrote:
>
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
> >
> > Dear Civilme and friends:
> >
> > There might well be a permissions problem. .Xauthority has "root" for
> > permissions, while everything else in my /home/sher directory has
> > "sher". (and I have not yet installed anything into it. It is a blank
> > "sher" directory with only "Desktop" and "http" directories in it, if I
> > recall (I am writing from Windows).
> >
> > I now recall distinctly that this morning when I noticed this, I went
> > into KDE by su to root (no problem with getting into KDE with root.
> > Everything works fine). I then went into the File Manager (remember I
> > was root) and changed permission on .Xauthority from "root" to "sher"
> > and logged out. But I could never really change the permissions. Every
> > time I went back to KDE as root and checked, .Xauthority's permissions
> > returned to "root." Should I do this in the console using a manual
> > command? If so, which command would be best, please? I am just afraid
> > that I am going to mess things up again.
> >
> > Thanks so very much.
> >
> > Benjamin
>
> Is your security setting high or paranoid? If so, consider a
> lower setting.
>
> As root
> cd /home/sher
> chown sher.sher .Xauthority
> chmod 0755 .Xauthority
>
> then login as user and do a startx
>
> Civileme
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