I had the weirdest thing happen this morning. I tried to create a dir in /home/michael and it failed with permission denied! WTF?

I checked, and it was now owned by root:root. Now that was totally perplexing. I had no idea what had happened to cause this. I issued a chown -R michael:users /home/michael and the problem was resolved. But what happened to do this?

The only thing I did this morning was to try and open dolphin as root using kdesu. The password box came up, but no dolphin. I tried again with konqueror but no box came up after entering root password. I just figured kdesu was broken.

Oh well - maybe I'll figure it out sooner or later.

I've seen this happen when I created a file in my home directory as root. I think it's happened creating a few things in there as root (files, directories, etc...).

I just tried to reproduce this by doing what I did this morning. This time dolphin came up, but complained about not being able to talk to klauncher. I tried konqueror and it started also, and I had root access to all files. This time, nothing was changed.

One of life's mysteries I reckon.

I just tried to reproduce this by doing what I did this morning. This time dolphin came up, but complained about not being able to talk to klauncher. I tried konqueror and it started also, and I had root access to all files. This time, nothing was changed.

One of life's mysteries I reckon.

A SlackBuild script gone wrong, perhaps?

Haven't built anything lately, and haven't been able to reproduce it either.

The same thing happened to me a while back.

I still don't know exactly how, but I also launched dolphin with kdesu around the time it happened.