On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:13:24 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 06/07/13 14:44, Chris Walker wrote: [Snip]
So any ideas on what I can do to remedy the problem please?
Just a stab in the dark. Try creating a new user. Log on as that user, and see if their settings "stick". If they do, start using that user (unless there's a reason why not to). You can copy the files to the new home directory and change their ownership with chown. Once you've done that, you can delete the old user, and change the name of the new user to the old user's name.
OK. That's easy enough to do but.... what do I do when I'm asked 'Create a private group for the user?' and also 'Specify user ID manually?' The choise I'm offered at that point is 500 which is the same group as mine.
Otherwise, are any of your files read-only that shouldn't be? Presumably you can save files and edit them in your home directory, or subdirectories thereof? Your home partition isn't mounted read only or anything daft like that?
I don't think so. ls -la /home/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 21 16:51 ./ drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Jul 7 09:32 ../ drwxr-xr-x 44 chris chris 4096 Jul 7 09:33 chris/ drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 21 17:02 lost+found/
There is one further thing I thought I'd mention and that's the display corruption. When composing this message for example, I wanted to refer to the screen showing me the options for creating a new user. If I hover the mouse over the Control Centre icon on the taskbar, I get a repeating list of the same items all the way up the screen. I get the same thing for notifications. Is that another problem or likely to be related to this one?