Dear friends:
Well, a little troubleshooting on my part and the problem is solved.
For whatever reason, the ownership of my /home/sher directory changed
since yesterday from "sher" to "root." My guess is that installing a
communications program called Seyon had something to do with it. After I
changed the ownership back to "sher", things immediately returned to
normal. I rebooted to test, renamed /home/sher/.Authority.old back to
/home/sher/.Authority and now everything is fine.
Thanks so much.
Benjamin
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