Why did os make sda1 partition read-only ?

[kdeuser]

Hi SecretCode, outputs :

reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ readlink -f ~
/media/hd/home/reel
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ ls -l /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc
ls: cannot access /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc: No such file or directory
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$

[kdeuser]

Hi SecretCode, outputs :

reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ readlink -f ~
/media/hd/home/reel
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ ls -l /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc
ls: cannot access /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc: No such file or directory
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$

The error on login to kde is :

[B]configuration file `/media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc`

Please contact your system administrator[/B]

[SecretCode]

It's still puzzling ... how about:

ls -ld /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config

touch /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config/testfile

[kdeuser]

No access - again :

reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ ls -ld /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 19 13:54 /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$ touch /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config/testfile
touch: cannot touch ‘/media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config/testfile’: Permission denied
reel@BM2LTSR66RBin:/media/hd/home/reel$

[SecretCode]

The config directory at /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config is owned by root, that's why you don't have write access to it.

It's possible you ran some graphical programs under sudo, meaning that root took ownership - the correct way would have been to use kdesudo.

But can you first check if the directories /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share and /media/hd/home/reel/.kde are owned by root or yourself?

[kdeuser]

The config directory at /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config is owned by root, that's why you don't have write access to it.

It's possible you ran some graphical programs under sudo, meaning that root took ownership - the correct way would have been to use kdesudo.

But can you first check if the directories /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share and /media/hd/home/reel/.kde are owned by root or yourself?

Just checked /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share is owned by me but in folder /.kde besides /share there`s another folder owned by root.

Folder named `cache-bm2ltsr66rbin` .

BM2LTS is the ubuntu version of a modified Trusty 14.04.

Probably a useless piece of information there.

[kdeuser]

I seem to get the following message on login :

[B]The Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation error [/B]

[SecretCode]

OK try the following

sudo chown reel:reel /media/hd/home/reel/.kde/share/config

Also check temp space

df -h /tmp

It may be that these errors are bugs in the distro you are using ... have you asked on their support channels?

[kdeuser]

@SecretCode,

Might well be distro bugs or an incompatibility issue with kde - don`t know.

Yes, cinfo (username) at vir-portal.de knows about this and posted source code of ppa`s which would "pull in" kubuntu-desk-top . The neon/kf5 ppa is not maintained anymore so the install didn`t really work. It ocurred to me to then use synsptic in a vain attempt to install kubuntu-desktop . The install went through but as you now know with errors and can`t boot into kde.