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The next chapter in wireless problems: difference between Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.10?



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John Abreau wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Don Levey <lug-TwWeWiF2EGRi+ztankeudA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> ....
>> into KDE to make sure I had access to the applet.  I got what ended up
>> being a permissions error on .ICEauthority (being owned by root - but
>> I'm not using ICWwm so what gives?), so instead I logged in as a test
> ....
> 
> 
> If one file owned by root was part of the problem, perhaps there are
> other files owned by root also contributing to the problem.
> 
> A quick fix if this is the case would be to change ownership of
> everything in your home directory:
> 
>     sudi chown -R donlevey:donlevey /home/donlevey
> 
> (assuming your login id is "donlevey")
> 
> 
> 
An idea I hadn't thought of - thanks!
I checked, and it appears that everything in my home directory is owned
by me.

 -Don
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