Thunderbird and or Eudora Fail to Open

[wanderer5210]

Thank you.  I'm more than a little confused that when attempting to open Thunderbird it will not open, nor would Eudora, I tried, as an alternative.
After some time of trying to figure it out I found that I could open them as SU from a terminal.  I'm scratching my head over this.  Any help
appreciated.

PCLinuxOS 2012 and the updated Thunderbird 11.  Never experienced this problem before.

[djohnston]

What desktop environment? (KDE, XFCE, etc.) Launch thunderbird and Eudora from a terminal window to see if there are any helpful error messages. Just type thunderbird to start it. Not sure, but Eudora's should be eudora. Post all output from the terminal window.

[wanderer5210]

What desktop environment? (KDE, XFCE, etc.) Launch thunderbird and Eudora from a terminal window to see if there are any helpful error messages. Just type thunderbird to start it. Not sure, but Eudora's should be eudora. Post all output from the terminal window.

KDE, sorry.

Terminal output:  [wanderer@localhost ~]$ thunderbird
Could not create gnome accelerators directory `/home/wanderer/.gnome2/accels': Permission denied

As I said, I can open both as root from the terminal.  I've since uninstalled Eudora.  I'm not sure what .gnome2 has to do with Thunderbird in a KDE environment.

[djohnston]

Sounds like an ownership issue. Open a terminal and enter the following.

su
chown -R wanderer:wanderer /home/wanderer
exit

Please post the results.

[wanderer5210]

Sounds like an ownership issue. Open a terminal and enter the following.

su
chown -R wanderer:wanderer /home/wanderer
exit

Please post the results.

Worked like a champ!  Thanks a heap.  How could my permissions have been root after only just installing the os?
I don't recall ever having a situation like that before.

[djohnston]

How could my permissions have been root after only just installing the os?

Wish I could answer that one, but I don't know. I've found that sometimes installing a package will create subdirectories with wrong permissions or ownership within the user's /home directory. Other than that, I can't say.