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:
Code:
drwx------ 3 <user> users 144 May 22 20:21 <folder>
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
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