Can't edit text -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 28/10/09 11:11, Fennix wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net 
> <mailto: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
This file was copied from OO in F-10 but I have set the permissions to 776:

    [bobg at box9 ootext]$ ll
    total 12
    -rwxrwxrw-. 1 bobg root 9554 2009-10-07 09:42 bp-meds.090827.odt

Bob