Tony, Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry, but I am not a very sophisticated Linux user. Could you be a little detailed with your answers?
I have tried to Google how to boot in single user mode without much luck. So far I have found two things: (1) one website calls changing the run level to 1 entering 'single user' mode (2) a second says to hold down the "shift" key at beginning of the boot sequence. I tried this and was presented with the option to boot several different kernels (and each kernel had a recovery mode option). At the bottom of the screen it sasy: "Press enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the commands before booting or 'c' for a command-line." If I highlight the latest kernel (Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (recovery mode) and press 'e', I get several more options, one of which is: linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.-22-generic root=UUID=long alpha-numeric string ro single. I highlighted this option and pressed "ctrl-x" to boot it. I then get a recovery menu which has various options: resume, clean, dpkg, failsafeX, grub, netroot, root I am in the ballpark of what you were suggesting I do? thanks again, thomas On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Tony Cratz <cr...@hematite.com> wrote: > On 06/13/2010 09:38 PM, Thomas Johnston wrote: >> "The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE: >> No write access to $HOME directory (/home/thomas). >> KDE is unable to start." > > Have you tried to come up as single user via Grub? If not > try it. You may find that fsck has failed on /home. Run it > by hand. Then try rebooting. > > > > Tony > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
