On Thursday 18 March 2004 09:50, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 05:32:05PM -0800, Kent Loobey wrote: > > So, I made the mistake of clicking on "OpenOffice.org Writer Word > > processor" in root and now when ever I click on it in the a user title > > bar it tries to install OpenOffice again in my user area and gives me the > > following message: > > > > "An error occurred while copying the file libgcc_s.so.1 to > > home/kent/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program." > > .... > > > So, I was able to find a copy of this file in /lib. I copied it. The > > next > > .... > > > I did a search and this file is not on my computer. So what is going on > > here? I can "su" into root and run oowriter and it works fine. > > .... > > Compare and contrast the active environment with "su" and "su -". > With "su" your home is unchanged. With "su -" the environment > is cleaned up. > > I suspect you did a "su" then started oo. > oo then made directories and moved or copied files. I am not sure what you are getting at here. I don't remember if I did a "su" or a "su -" but I suspect that I did a "su -" since I was trying to find out if I could run it still in root mode, however, since I was considering using it to edit my user documents I might actually have done "su". > > As your normal user try this command: > > find . -uid 0 -print > > If it is a directory use "ls -ld" to see the permission details. > If it is a file use "ls -l" to see the permission details. kent:~$ find . uid 0 -print | head
