Payne IV
November 4th, 2008, 08:56 PM
After I ugpraded to Ubuntu 8.10 from 8.04, I've had a bunch of problems.
I can't open any old OpenOffice documents because it says I am not the owner (I am logged in as the root user). When I open firefox, it is blank and nothing really works except for viewing websites. All my bookmarks and such are gone. Thunderbird does the same thing.
When I log in, I get an error that says something about the permissions being ignored, I think it said I should have it set to 644 but I don't know what that is.
Can anyone please help? I'm new to Ubuntu. It kind of sounds like my profile was lost or I am somehow using a new one now even though I'm using the same account.
I can't open any old OpenOffice documents because it says I am not the owner (I am logged in as the root user). When I open firefox, it is blank and nothing really works except for viewing websites. All my bookmarks and such are gone. Thunderbird does the same thing.
When I log in, I get an error that says something about the permissions being ignored, I think it said I should have it set to 644 but I don't know what that is.
Can anyone please help? I'm new to Ubuntu. It kind of sounds like my profile was lost or I am somehow using a new one now even though I'm using the same account.