<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b>2011/5/14 John Johnson <<a ymailto="mailto:jvj@golden.net" href="mailto:jvj@golden.net">jvj@golden.net</a>>:<br><div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">> Moreover, with a new install of Ubunbtu 11.04 I am getting errors w/gedit<br>> (again out-of -the-box).<br>> It appears that gedit is trying to update a history file or file(s) and that<br>> this operation is failing due to permissions.<br><br><div><span>By the way, the permissions thing is because once you used gedit as root it created the file as root. </span></div><div><br></div><div>Logged in as your self just execute the following in your home folder</div><div><br></div><div>ls
-la | grep root</div><div><br></div><div>With that you'll see the files that belong to root. Most likely you don't want them belonging to root.</div><div><br></div><div>You can either delete the files or change ownership (chown) to yourself. as the files belong to root, you will need to do it with sudo<br></div><div><br></div><div>e.g. if your ID is johnjohn</div><div><br></div><div>sudo chown johnjohn:johnjohn <filename></div><div><br></div><div>Although I've never seen gedit create a history file. Maybe it's the .bash_history?<br></div><div><br><span></span></div><div>Raul Suarez<br><br></div>Technology consultant<br>Software, Hardware and Practices<br>_________________<br>Twitter: rarsamx<br>http://rarsa.blogspot.com/ <br>An eclectic collection of random thoughts<br><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>