On 12/13/24 04:59, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
Exploring the possibility of accidentally making some part of the $PATH owned by root. No hits.On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 04:48:09AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:On 12/13/24 03:52, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 01:53:55AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: [...]That was the system config at the original install, and every one of the subsequent installs, nothing I did with the installer prevented it from installing orca and brltty. Text only, several variations of graphical have been tried.Hm. Difficult to tell, then.Another clue perhaps: where does t-bird try to save a draft copy of a msg while editing it?, its driving me crazy with failed to write a draft msg every 5 minutes.I'd venture the strong guess that this is a totally unrelated rabbit hole. In our trade, there are several of them, as you quite certainly know. CheersWherever it try's, t-b seemto be interpreting the lag as a possible perms denial. I did an ls -lR on the directory in home where I put the unpacked .xz, and I own every byte of it. The only thing I don't own in /home/gene is .. That's root:root as expected.Sorry. I'm totally confused. I don't even understand what you are trying to say here. Cheers
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis