New install, now ALL my files are read-only. (SOLVED)

[batzilla]

Just to say, having checked through my own system, I also have fuse as a 'normal' group, so that doesn't seem to be wrong, although it means GIDs will tend to be offset by one from UIDs. It's ugly but it doesn't matter. Sorry for misleading you there.

500 is right for the first user on the system.

Can you post the result of ls -la /home/buck, please.

Also df

ok, great, kj!  I'm feeling better.   Still wondering about the other questions, though.

[buck@localhost root]$ ls -la /home/buck
total 6976
drwxr-xr-x 59 buck buck    4096 Oct  2 12:10 ./
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root    4096 Oct  2 11:19 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    9947 Feb 28  2010 1913_Changed the US.odt
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Jul 18  2010 .AbiSuite/
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Feb 24  2009 .adobe/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    4450 Jun 18  2010 ancestor_chart.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   22015 Jun 23  2010 ancestor_chart.pdf
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   26089 Mar  6  2009 Article about Politicians.odt
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Feb  8  2010 backup/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   27952 Feb  8  2010 backup_mondo.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   31869 Feb  8  2010 Backup_rsync.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   24656 Feb  9  2010 backup_with_Grsync.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   27899 Sep  2  2011 Baker.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    4310 Sep 29 18:09 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck      24 Oct 10  2008 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck     376 Oct 10  2008 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck     124 Oct 10  2008 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Oct 10  2008 .beryl/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Sep 16 19:58 bin/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   16599 Feb 11  2009 Bonnie Pye.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    5497 Jun 22  2010 BuckReport.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   32108 Apr 19  2010 By-Laws.odt
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Dec 25  2009 .cache/
drwxr-xr-x  4 buck buck    4096 Oct 18  2010 .config/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   67047 Nov 25  2008 Constitution.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   73398 Feb 15  2009 Constitution of SC.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   14747 Jul 11  2011 DayCare Letter.odt
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Nov 25  2009 .dbus/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    4760 Nov  5  2008 descend_chart2.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   20847 Nov  2  2008 descend_report.html
-rwxr-xr-x  1 buck buck      12 Aug 20 15:49 .desktop*
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck   12288 Sep 26 22:11 Desktop/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    5674 Nov  5  2008 det_descendant_report_Daniel_Douglas.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   15327 Nov  7  2008 det_descendant_report_Duncan.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    5674 Nov  5  2008 det_descendant_report.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck      51 Apr 16  2009 .devede
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck      24 Aug 20 15:49 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x  7 buck buck    4096 Jan 19  2010 Documents/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Jan 19  2010 Downloads/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   21322 Mar 20  2010 DSS Letter.odt
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Mar 11  2010 .dvdcss/
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Oct 10  2008 .emerald/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   10125 Feb 20  2009 envelope.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck      16 Mar 11  2009 .esd_auth
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    5268 Nov  5  2008 family_group.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck  552868 Feb  8  2010 Firefox_wallpaper.png
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Jun 16  2010 .fontconfig/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck     516 Oct 10  2008 .fonts.conf
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   15663 Sep 24 21:45 Format_flashdrive.odt
drwxr-xr-x  4 buck buck    4096 Apr 13  2010 .gconf/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Sep 26 18:40 .gconfd/
drwxr-xr-x  4 buck buck    4096 Mar 15  2009 .gegl-0.0/
drwxr-xr-x 22 buck buck    4096 Jan 30  2009 .gimp-2.4/
drwxr-xr-x 22 buck buck    4096 Aug 21 19:42 .gimp-2.6/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Oct 10  2008 .gkrellm2/
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Sep 11 18:35 .gnome2/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Oct 10  2008 .gnome2_private/
drwxr-xr-x  4 buck buck    4096 Oct 17  2008 .gnucash/
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Sep 28 18:07 .gnupg/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Apr 16  2009 .gphoto/
drwxr-xr-x  5 buck buck    4096 Apr 16  2009 .gqview/
drwxr-xr-x  9 buck buck    4096 Jul 27  2009 .gramps/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Feb  9  2010 .grsync/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Feb 25  2009 .gstreamer-0.10/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck       0 Feb 10  2010 .gtk-bookmarks
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck     181 Mar 15  2010 .gtk-custom-papers
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   11251 Jun  6  2009 .gtkrc-2.0
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck 2002090 Dec 23  2009 Gun_Facts
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck       0 Sep 26 21:10 .ICEauthority
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   21733 Dec 16  2010 index.html
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   21724 Dec 16  2010 index.html.1
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   23721 Jan  5  2011 index.html.2
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    5197 Jun 23  2010 indiv_complete.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck     534 Jan  5  2011 inet.log
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck  122674 Dec  6  2008 james_and_molly.jpg
drwxr-xr-x  4 buck buck    4096 Nov 18  2009 .java/
drwxr-xr-x  7 buck buck    4096 Feb 24  2009 .kde/
drwxr-xr-x  5 buck buck    4096 Sep 26 22:11 .kde4/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck     140 Oct 15  2008 .kderc
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   16281 Jun 24  2009 Letter_to_IRS.odt
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Sep 26 22:11 .local/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck     255 Jul 23  2011 .lpoptions
drwxr-xr-x  5 buck buck    4096 Sep 21 20:37 .luckyBackup/
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Oct 10  2008 .macromedia/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   14784 Sep 20  2011 MBF Leasing #1.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   14905 Sep 20  2011 MBF Leasing #2.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   14328 Sep 20  2011 MBF Leasing #3.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   14171 Sep 20  2011 MBF Leasing #4.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   30961 Dec 22  2008 McLaurin_Genealogy.backup.gramps
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   30831 Nov  8  2008 McLaurin_Genealogy.backup.gramps.old                                                                           
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck 1671168 Jan 23  2009 McLaurin_Genealogy.grdb
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Oct 10  2008 .mcop/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck      31 Sep 26 09:25 .mcoprc
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck       0 Oct 10  2008 .mdk-menu-migrated
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 May  5  2009 Miscellaneous/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Jan 19  2010 Movies/
drwxr-xr-x  4 buck buck    4096 Feb 24  2009 .mozilla/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Oct 11  2008 .mplayer/
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Jan 19  2010 Music/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck      16 Oct 10  2008 .net_applet
-rwxr-xr-x  1 buck buck      18 Oct 10  2008 .net_monitorrc*
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   21315 Jun 23  2010 number_of_ancestors_report.pdf
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Feb 24  2009 .ooo-2.0/
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Sep 26 18:18 .ooo3/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck     973 Aug 24 21:24 pclinuxos-kde-2012.08
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck      60 Sep  1 11:58 pclinuxos-kde-2012.08.md5sum
drwxr-xr-x 18 buck buck    4096 Jan 19  2010 Pictures/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   21678 Feb 13  2009 Political Letter.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   12630 Nov 18  2008 PrisonerPacket.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   52608 Mar 20  2009 Prophecy-9_11.odt
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck 1083378 May  5  2009 .ps
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Jun 15  2010 .pulse/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck     256 Nov 27  2009 .pulse-cookie
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Sep 26 09:25 .qt/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   87525 Sep 24 21:45 .recently-used
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    1432 Aug 21 19:42 .recently-used.xbel
drwxr-xr-x  5 buck buck    4096 Jan 12  2010 .sane/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   13416 Mar 10  2010 Schedule.odt
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Feb 21  2010 .Skype/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   24589 Feb  7  2009 sovereign states.odt
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Apr 16  2009 .spumux/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   19662 Oct 10  2008 SynapticUpgrade.odt
drwxr-xr-x  4 buck buck    4096 Oct 11  2008 .thumbnails/
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Oct 18  2008 .thunderbird/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 buck buck       4 Oct 10  2008 tmp -> /tmp/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    2775 Oct 17  2008 translog.20081017145956.log
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck   54484 Oct 17  2008 translog.20081017151712.log
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Oct 11  2008 .tvtime/
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Aug  7 18:59 .update-notifier/
drwxr-xr-x  5 buck buck    4096 Jun 23  2010 .update-notifier-launcher/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    4314 Sep 10 23:00 .viminfo
drwxr-xr-x  3 buck buck    4096 Jun 26 16:03 .wine/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck      98 Sep 26 21:10 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck      66 Sep 29 18:51 .xauthWYs8bR
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    1897 Jul  6  2011 .xbindkeysrc
drwxr-xr-x  2 buck buck    4096 Sep 26 18:09 .xine/
drwxr-xr-x  4 buck buck    4096 Oct 10  2008 .xmms/
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck    9549 Aug 20 12:40 .xscreensaver
-rw-r--r--  1 buck buck  274095 Sep 26 21:10 .xsession-errors
[buck@localhost root]$

[buck@localhost root]$ df -a
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             7.7G  4.7G  2.7G  65% /
none                     0     0     0   -  /proc
none                     0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
/dev/sdb6             282G  4.6G  278G   2% /home
none                     0     0     0   -  /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
gvfs-fuse-daemon      0.0K  0.0K  0.0K   -  /root/.gvfs
[buck@localhost root]$

[kjpetrie]

OK, all looks well so far. The next steps to take are already on the forum in this thread: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,108063.0.html.

Hope that sets you in the right direction.

[batzilla]

OK, all looks well so far. The next steps to take are already on the forum in this thread: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,108063.0.html.

Hope that sets you in the right direction.

Thanks, kjp.  That helped a lot.  My files are no longer read-only and I can log in as user instead of root.  I even got my old desktop back.  I don't know how that happened.  The only problem is, I've now got more problems.

1.  The green check mark that indicates whether the internet is connected or not is no longer shown (minor problem).
2.  When I tried to open kwrite to edit my grub/menu.lst it crashed.

[root@localhost buck]# kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
kwrite(3242)/kdeui (kdelibs): Session bus not found
To circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash)
export $(dbus-launch)
KCrash: Application 'kwrite' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/root/.kde4/socket-localhost.localdomain/kdeinit4__0

[1]+  Stopped                 kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
[root@localhost buck]#

A screen comes up that tells me to retry.  When I click on that, it takes me to the grub/menu.lst and allows me to edit.

3. When I check the ownership of /home/buck/tmp, it tells me it's root.  I changed that before I rebooted, but it apparently changed back to root.
4.  I can't get my HP 722c set up.  See http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,109581.0.html.

There are probably others, but I don't want to get completely off track.  I probably should do some research.

[pags]

OK, all looks well so far. The next steps to take are already on the forum in this thread: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,108063.0.html.

Hope that sets you in the right direction.

Thanks, kjp.  That helped a lot.  My files are no longer read-only and I can log in as user instead of root.  I even got my old desktop back.  I don't know how that happened.  The only problem is, I've now got more problems.

1.  The green check mark that indicates whether the internet is connected or not is no longer shown (minor problem).
2.  When I tried to open kwrite to edit my grub/menu.lst it crashed.

[root@localhost buck]# kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
kwrite(3242)/kdeui (kdelibs): Session bus not found
To circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash)
export $(dbus-launch)
KCrash: Application 'kwrite' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/root/.kde4/socket-localhost.localdomain/kdeinit4__0

[1]+  Stopped                 kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
[root@localhost buck]#

A screen comes up that tells me to retry.  When I click on that, it takes me to the grub/menu.lst and allows me to edit.

3. When I check the ownership of /home/buck/tmp, it tells me it's root.  I changed that before I rebooted, but it apparently changed back to root.
4.  I can't get my HP 722c set up.  See http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,109581.0.html.

There are probably others, but I don't want to get completely off track.  I probably should do some research.

The reason your "tmp" directory is owned ny root, is because it is a symlink to the system (/tmp/) directory.  That is normal.

lrwxrwxrwx  1 buck buck       4 Oct 10  2008 tmp -> /tmp/

Check the system tmp directory

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ls / -lh

Here is mine:

[jpaglia@paglia-e6500 ~]$ ls / -lh
total 104K
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Sep 25 20:36 bin/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Oct  5 08:08 boot/
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4.2K Oct  5 08:08 dev/
drwxr-xr-x 151 root root  12K Oct  5 08:10 etc/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4.0K Jun 20 17:46 home/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Dec 20  2011 initrd/
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root  12K Sep  3 19:56 lib/
drwx------   2 root root  16K Dec 20  2011 lost+found/
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root 4.0K Oct  5 08:07 media/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Dec 28  2011 mnt/
-rw-r--r--   1 root root 3.5K Aug 28 22:22 Module.symvers
-rw-rw-r--   1 root root    0 Jun 15 13:25 null
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 4.0K Sep 26 20:10 opt/
dr-xr-xr-x 201 root root    0 Oct  5 04:07 proc/
drwxr-xr-x  42 root root 4.0K Oct  4 08:21 root/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  12K Aug 20 07:53 sbin/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Dec 20  2011 srv/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4.0K Feb 22  2010 swap/
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root    0 Oct  5 04:07 sys/
drwxrwxrwt  15 root root  320 Oct  5 08:10 tmp/
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root 4.0K May 31 20:53 usr/
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 4.0K Dec 20  2011 var/
[jpaglia@paglia-e6500 ~]$

Notice the "t" on the permissions of my system tmp...that is important.

The only reason I have this setup like this, is because I have my tmp going into a ramdisk, so it is faster, and wiped out at reboot.  I believe the default is to have individual tmp directories for each user, seperate from the system tmp (if this is no longer the case, someone can correct me).

[kjpetrie]

Glad it helped.

1. I think you might get some help if you search the forum for "net applet".

2. The correct command to open kwrite (and other KDE applications) from a terminal is "dbus-launch kwrite". It does crash if that syntax isn't used.

3. Is /home/buck/tmp/ a directory or a symbolic link to /tmp/? If the latter its permissions and ownership don't matter as long as /tmp/ has the permissions drwxrwxrwt (pags beat me to it).

4. I can't help specifically with an HP printer because I haven't got one. However, the consensus seems to be that the most reliable way to set up printers is to go to "localhost:631" in a web browser. This will take you to the CUPS web interface. If it doesn't, make sure CUPS is installed and running (look in PCC -> System -> Manage Services).

[Bald Brick]

Glad it helped.

1. I think you might get some help if you search the forum for "net applet".

2. The correct command to open kwrite (and other KDE applications) from a terminal is "dbus-launch kwrite". It does crash if that syntax isn't used.

3. Is /home/buck/tmp/ a directory or a symbolic link to /tmp/? If the latter its permissions and ownership don't matter as long as /tmp/ has the permissions drwxrwxrwt (pags beat me to it).

4. I can't help specifically with an HP printer because I haven't got one. However, the consensus seems to be that the most reliable way to set up printers is to go to "localhost:631" in a web browser. This will take you to the CUPS web interface. If it doesn't, make sure CUPS is installed and running (look in PCC -> System -> Manage Services).

Additionally:

You don't need to start KWrite with "dbus-launch kwrite" if you are starting it as the ordinary user you're logged in as.

If you are starting it as root you may or may not have to use "dbus-launch". It all depends on how you've become root. If you are running from a login shell, i,e. if you're logged in as root or have become root with "su -" or "su -l" (or if plain "su" is an alias of "su -" on your system) then "dbus-launch" is not necessary.

But if you've used plain "su" and if "su" is not an alias for "su -", then you need "dbus-launch".

What complicates matters is that "su" by default is an alias for "su -" in some PCLinuxOS versions but not in all: it may depend on when you first installed. One drawback of using "su -" is that it changes your current directory to /root. The drawback with using "dbus-launch" is that you may get a couple of warnings:

Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.

Usually KWrite will not misbehave.

[batzilla]

Thanks, pags.  I ran ls / -lh and it showed that the tmp permissions do have a "t" at the end.

Thanks, kjp and Bald Brick, I did change users with the plain "su".  I just logged in as "su -" and this is what I got:

[buck@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst
kdeinit4: Shutting down running client.
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
kbuildsycoca4 running...
It brought up kwrite and let me edit the file.  Then it came up after I copied this:
klauncher: Exiting on signal 15.  But all I have now is a black cursor at the bottom.

I'm checking out "net applet" and "localhost:631".  Ill let you know how things turn out.