I lost Root Privileges after upgrade

[webmiester]

I am running Ubuntu mate 16.04 on a PC.

I wanted to do something with firefox but the firefox version I had on was too old. So I did an uprage using sudo apt-get upgrade.

After sometime, I rebooted and my theme no longer exists, all my icons disappeared. I can enter my Root Account on the GUI but when I try to click on things like >Administration>users, the system disallows me to manipulate anything. It seems like my root account doesnt have root priveledges anymore.

Has anyone encountered this before? Any suggestions?

[Bashing-om]

webmiester; Hello -

I take a stab at this - permissions ?

post back - between code tags - the out put of terminal command:


ls -al /home

as the place to start the looking.
code tag tutorial:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2171721&p=12776168#post12776168


it's all in the process

[webmiester]

Thank you Bashing-om for your reply.

I was in a hurry to get this thing working so I just reflashed the harddisk with an image that was already prepared. So I reverted back to the old ubuntu system, and I wont be upgreading it anymore. Thanks

[Bashing-om]

webmiester; Hey - hey ")

Thanks for getting back and telling what you did for the resolution.
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