Can't edit text -

[Fennix]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>wrote:

> On 28/10/09 10:36, Tim wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 09:45 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have two completely updated F-11 computers in which the OpenOffice
>>> word processor is nearly useless because I can't edit anything?
>>>
>>> I can open a document and copy it to a new file but it doesn't trust
>>> me to change anything, a matter of permissions perhaps but I can't
>>> see where to change it.
>>>
>>>
>> Are you working on other people's files?  Are you one of those people
>> who log in as root?
>>
>>
>>
> The files are for user "bobg." Neither computer has ever been booted to
> root. Obviously there are many things that must be done as "su." I don't
> think the OO install is one of them. Both systems were originally installed
> from the Omega live cd but I don't recall if OO comes with it or not. But I
> have had to install a lot of other app's and have had no such trouble.
>
> Bob
>
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I have seen like this before when files have been copied back from CD/DVD
and are flagged as "read-only."  I know that you have not said that you had
done this.  I know that you have checked the ownership.  My last several
version upgrades have been done using preupgrade.  My data "home" is on
another disk separate from the currently installed home and I have never
seen these symptoms except when having copied data back from archival
(read-only) media.  Hope this helps think of something....

Fennix
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