"No edit" signs on desktop folders and LOST modprobe (Fedora Core 2)
 

Logged in as user, I got "No edit" signs on the following folders on my desktop:
- Computer
- <user>'s home
- Trash

<user> is owner of home directory and .Trash and Desktop/Trash/... (Where is Computer located by the way?)

How can this happen? Or is this normal??

I also lost modprobe!! Even if I do su root, I got "bash:modprobe: command not found"

same for ndiswrapper (trying to set up wireless on my Acer Aspire 2003)

If I do "locate modprobe" it says that it is in fact in /sbin/ but with ls -la I can't find it.... (Done an updatedb already)

Can anyone help me? I'm very new to Linux just got few experience....

Thx in advance!


smokylux

Hi smokylux,
you have done many right things already.

To answer some of your questions first:
This is not normal.
This should not happen.
Computer must be an invention by <whateverdistroyouareusing>. It is probably a virtual folder. Try clicking on it and see what it says in the location bar.

Now to your first problem (no edit):
The situation you describe looks like a permission issue. Try ls -l ~, the output should be several lines like this:
Check if either <user> or users (the user group) are not correct.
If this is the case issue this command in the /home directory as root:
chown <user>:users <user> -R
Also, check if the permissions at least have the drwx at the beginning (I am not sure about the d at the moment. Try adding it, if you run into any problems.).
To change that run this command in the /home directory as root:
chmod u+drwx <user> -R

The second sounds strange. The most likely problem I can think of that your path is not updated correctly. Try running source /etc/profile as root on the command line and try if it is found now. You can also try adding /sbin to your path by hand: export PATH=$PATH:/sbin. This of course will not help if the file is indeed not there (another way to check if it is in this directory would be cding into it and running ./modprobe and see if the error returned is a modprobe (its there, yey!) or bash (too bad) error.)

I have no clue how this can have happened (especially not if both these errors occurd at the same time), but I hope getting rid of the symptoms is sufficient.

Good luck,
- drowstar

Thx alot! :)

Solved the first problem myself, by doin chown -R <user>:<user> /home/<user>....

there must have been one or maybe few folders that didn't belong to <user>.... do ownerships change if you do su root and take changes (e.g. emptying the trash folder, as files owned by root where there)?

Second problem was solved by source /etc/profile..... yeah! Thx, thx and thx :o)

AsI'm new to Linux and this forum I'm very happy, that someone could help me that fast! I will stay here :o))



smokylux