Can't edit text -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 28/10/09 17:12, James Wilkinson wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>     Am I alone in this, can anyone tell me what I need to do?
>>
>>      
> Have you checked SELinux: do you have setroubleshoot installed?
>
> James.
>    

I guess I do, not sure how to tell but when I do locate "setroubleshoot" 
it produces a long list of files. I haven't had any selinux error 
messages since installing F-11.

My problems appear to occur when I transfer files via sftp. That changed 
the owner to root. I created a new directory as user "bobg" and moved 
the files to it, then removed the original directory and recreated it as 
bobg and put the files back in and things work normally. I imagine all 
that really needs to be done is to change the owner, the permissions 
were ok.

Things are working and I know how to cause the problem, another case of 
knowing what doesn't work. I'm sure it is the result of doing something 
wrong with sftp. That will take some more investigation I've transferred 
a lot of iles that way without a problem?

Bob