So then tried run sddm which failed finding it so did a sudo sddm and while running found that any created files are owned by root - so not good.<snip>
On Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:44:08 -0400, Vincent Coen <VBCoen@gmail.com>
wrote: <snip>
So then tried run sddm which failed finding it so did a sudo sddm<snip>
and while running found that any created files are owned by root -
so not good.
Not sure what caused the problem, but most likely there are now root
owned files in /home.
From https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su
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If the mistake has already been made, it can be fixed with:
$ su -
Password:
# chown -Rc tester:tester /home/tester
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